Land Where Blues Began

English

ISBN: 0385312857

EAN: 9780385312851

Category: Music / Genres & Styles / Blues

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 12/01/1994

Synopsis: Set in an era as harsh and fertile as Delta silt,The Land Where the Blues Beganreveals how the river of African-American culture overtook its repressive banks--to give us R & B, soul, rock n roll, and the only purely American art form, the blues. Alan Lomax takes us on an adventure into the bad old days of the post-slavery, Jim Crow Mississippi Delta--the birthplace of the blues--when railroads and levees were being built and cotton boomed at the expense of Southern working-class African Americans.Singing of their misery and their barely concealed rage, the Bluesman enlisted their African heritage to keep their souls alive and in the process created the first satirical song form in the English language.We meet Muddy Waters (the father of modern blues), learn how Robert Johnson met his end, and are introduced to Fred McDowell and Son House, who taught Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton how to play the blues.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

Excerpt: Unknown Property Excerpt

Land Where Blues Began

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.3 inches

Width: 6.15 inches

Length: 9.17 inches

Weight: 21.02 oz

Pages: 560