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Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax (2002, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-101565847393
ISBN-139781565847392
eBay Product ID (ePID)2223742
Product Key Features
Book TitleLand Where the Blues Began
Number of Pages560 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicHistory & Criticism, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Genres & Styles / Blues
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic, History
AuthorAlan Lomax
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight30 oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-268632
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground." -Brian Eno "No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own." -Nat Hentoff "If not for Lomax, few people would have heard 'Tom Dooley' or 'Goodnight Irene' and Bob Zimmerman might be singing 'Feelings' at Holiday Inns around Hibbing, Minnesota." - Newsweek, "Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground." --Brian Eno "No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own." --Nat Hentoff "If not for Lomax, few people would have heard 'Tom Dooley' or 'Goodnight Irene' and Bob Zimmerman might be singing 'Feelings' at Holiday Inns around Hibbing, Minnesota." -- Newsweek, Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground." --Brian Eno No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own." --Nat Hentoff If not for Lomax, few people would have heard #145;Tom Dooley' or #145;Goodnight Irene' and Bob Zimmerman might be singing #145;Feelings' at Holiday Inns around Hibbing, Minnesota." -- Newsweek, Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground." --Brian Eno No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own." --Nat Hentoff If not for Lomax, few people would have heard ‘Tom Dooley' or ‘Goodnight Irene' and Bob Zimmerman might be singing ‘Feelings' at Holiday Inns around Hibbing, Minnesota." -- Newsweek
Dewey Decimal781.6/43/09762
SynopsisThis odyssey across America's musical heartland covers the history of blues through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born., A self-described "song-hunter," the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930's and '40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta's music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him. The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax's "stingingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey" (Kirkus Reviews) through America's musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax's "discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread" ( The New York Times Book Review ). The Land Where the Blues Began captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history. Winner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, The Land Where the Blues Began is now available in a handsome new paperback edition., Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream "Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground." --Brian Eno A self-described "song-hunter," the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and '40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta's music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him. The Land Where the Blues Began is both a fascinating recollection of a pivotal time in American music history and an intimate portrait of the struggles blues musicians faced in the Jim Crow South. The blues were an organic expression of Black humanity in a place where slavery had been outlawed but where segregation, violence, and racial inequality were still the law of the land. Lomax's role as a liaison to white America, relating the emotion and musical virtuosity displayed by those musicians, would change American popular music forever. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax's "discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Artistic expression has always been a way for oppressed peoples to speak truth to power, assert their dignity, and simply live in a world rife with injustice. The Land Where the Blues Began is an enthralling chronicle of the journey to bring this irrepressible art out of the Delta where it began and into the ears of every American., Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream "Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground." --Brian Eno A self-described "song-hunter," the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and '40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta's music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him. The Land Where the Blues Began is both a fascinating recollection of a pivotal time in American music history and an intimate portrait of the struggles blues musicians faced in the Jim Crow South. The blues were an organic expression of Black humanity in a place where slavery had been outlawed but where segregation, violence, and racial inequality were still the law of the land. Lomax's role as a liaison to white America, relating the emotion and musical virtuosity displayed by those musicians, would change American popular music forever. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax's "discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread" (The New York Times Book Review). Artistic expression has always been a way for oppressed peoples to speak truth to power, assert their dignity, and simply live in a world rife with injustice. The Land Where the Blues Began is an enthralling chronicle of the journey to bring this irrepressible art out of the Delta where it began and into the ears of every American.
LC Classification NumberML3521
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- Mar 30, 2016
Alan Lomax is worth your time if you are into the subject, which I am.
This is not a book about music really. It is a book about the texture of how hard life was for the (mostly) men (and some women) at the beginning of blues music in America. I say in America because the blues has no beginning, any more than sadness and hard times has no beginning. If you want to know where men like Son House and Robert Johnson and the rest of the famous and mostly never discovered, never to be heard again came from, read it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
