Pelican Publishing Company, October 1983. Reprint. Paper Back. Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans is a comprehensive history documenting the rise and development of a unique musical form. Originally published in Great Britain under the title Walking to New Orleans, this 249-page volume examines the careers and music of the..... More
Counterpoint, October 2014. Hardcover. On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what..... More
Univ of California Pr, August 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first with complete number string. Small quarto. {7' x 10'} In dustjacket with chips & tears along top & bottom edges. Grey marbled end pages with previous owner's name emblem blind stamped bottom corner front free end page. Blue cloth covered..... More
University of Chicago Press, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and..... More
Grove Press, October 2021. Hardcover. The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues."--President Barack Obama "He is without a doubt the..... More
Univ Tennessee Press, March 2008. Oversized Hardcover. Highway 61: Heart of the Delta celebrates the Mississippi Delta in words and pictures. Edited by Randall Norris with photographs by award-winning photographer Jean Philippe Cypres, this volume brings to life this storied region of the South. Actor Morgan Freeman provides a foreword..... More
Knopf, March 2009. Hardcover. Before there was Elvis, there was W.C. Handy, "the man who made the blues." Here is the first major biography in decades of the man who gave us such iconic songs as "St. Louis Blues," "The Memphis Blues," and "Beale Street Blues," and who was responsible..... More
Mariner Books, October 2010. Trade Paperback. Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut..... More
St Martins Pr, November 1997. Hardcover. Once a thriving body of innovative and fluid music, jazz is now the victim of destructive professional and artistic forces, says Eric Nisenson. Corruption by marketers, appropriation by the mainstream, superficial media portrayal, and sheer lack of skill have all contributed to the demise..... More
