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There are many intellectual curiosities about the blues. It has always seemed a phenomenon that the guitar styles that came out of the South during the twenties and thirties could be differentiated by their regional characteristics. On hearing a strange new artist, one can almost pinpoint his city...

An historical survey of Blues music. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

After the first volume, reserved entirely to improvisation, this second one is dedicated to the comping, an inexhaustible and often unexplored universe. Here too, you will need to understand this manual as a place from which to get ideas. GUITARLab in fact was created by this assumption and is designed...

ROGER EAGLE was a towering fi gure in British popular music. Uniquely, his infl uence straddled the apparently insurmountable cultural divide separating Manchester andLiverpool.In any music scene there needs to be a personality capable of leading a generation towards a new sound and consequently new...

Learn Blues Accordion is a unique method book that includes 34 blues compositions and numerous exercises that will help you master the blues. The exercises increase in difficulty and introduce concepts and techniques that specifically target both hands. Explore blues scales, chord progressions and...

Piano Playbook: Blues & Soul includes superb new piano arrangements of 45 blues and soul classics, complete with vocal line and guitar chords, designed for intermediate to advanced players. These songs have been chosen to reflect the moods at the heart each genre. This allows Robert Johnson...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center...

From GQ's meager beginning holding rehearsals in a Bronx, New York basement, to their debut song, "Disco Nights" instantaneously becoming a chart-topping hit, Tony Lopez's page-turning tell-all memoir, Number 1 With A Bullet: The Real GQ Story, is on fire.  Lopez was walking his...

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn’t name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis “one of the wizards of modern music.” Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead—who took lessons with Davis—claimed his musical...

Feeling blue? Is this because you’re struggling to master the piano? If so, Really Easy Piano: Blues is the perfect songbook for you, presenting easy arrangements to nineteen well-worn blues pieces soaked in melancholy soul and fiery rebellion. These simplified arrangements are accompanied...

From October 1959 until the mid-1970s, Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick collaborated on what they hoped to be a definitive history and analysis of the blues in Texas. Both were prominent scholars and researchers—Oliver had already established an impressive record of publications, and McCormick was...

A second colourful repertory of popular piano pieces, includes Smoky On The Rocks, The Boll Weevil Boogie and Club Sayonara. Suitable for intermediate standard pianists.

Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-American blues music, using blues tropes in their own music and creating a network of admirers and emulators that spanned the Atlantic. This cross-fertilization...

La música constituye una actividad antiquísima en la vida y en la historia del hombre. Este libro es una sintética y a la vez muy completa historia de la música, que abarca desde sus orígenes más remotos hasta los últimos movimientos y corrientes de nuestro tiempo. Va dirigido a todo tipo de...