Martin Scorsese presents the blues : a musical journey / edited by Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, Christopher John Farley ; preface by Martin Scorsese ; foreword by Alex Gibney ; afterword by Chuck D.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guralnick, Peter.

Scorsese, Martin.

Santelli, Robert.

George-Warren, Holly.

Farley, Christopher John.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

287 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), colored map, portraits ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Blues

Place of Publication:

New York : Amistad, 2003.

Summary:

Rock & roll, jazz, R&B, hip-hop: Without question, today's most popular sounds owe an incalculable debt to that uniquely American musical creation -- The Blues. But the powerful influence of the blues, with its dramatic, artful storytelling about the elemental experience of being alive, is found in the works of some of our most important literary voices as well.

This volume -- a companion to the groundbreaking seven-part documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues -- represents a literary sampler every bit as vibrant and original and diverse as the films and music that inspired it. Included in this stunning collection are newly commissioned essays by David Halberstam, Hilton Als, Suzan-Lori Parks, Elmore Leonard, Luc Sante, John Edgar Wideman, and others; timeless archival pieces by the likes of Stanley Booth, Paul Oliver, and Mack McCormick; evocative color illustrations and rare vintage photography; illuminating and in-depth conversations and portraits of musicians, ranging from Robert Johnson and Bessie Smith to John Lee Hooker and Eric Clapton; lyrics of legendary blues compositions; personal essays by the series directors Martin Scorsese, Charles Burnett, Richard Pearce, Wim Wenders, Marc Levin, Mike Figgis, and Clint Eastwood; and excerpts from such literary masters as James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and William Faulkner.

The result is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them. In these pages one not only reads about the blues, one hears them, feels them, lives them. Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues is more than a timeless collection of great writing to be savored and shared: it is an unforgettable initiation into the very essence of American music and culture.

Contents:

A Century of the Blues / Robert Santelli

Feel Like Going Home / Martin Scorsese

Warming the Devil's Fire / Charles Burnett

The Road to Memphis / Richard Pearce

The Soul of a Man / Wim Wenders

Godfathers and Sons / Marc Levin

Red, White and Blues / Mike Figgis

Piano Blues and Beyond / Clint Eastwood.

Notes:

"A companion book to the PBS documentary series Martin Scorsese presents the blues: a musical journey"--Introduction.

Includes essays, archival pieces, in-depth conversations and portraits, lyrics of legendary blues compositions, personal essays by the series directors and excerpts from literary masters.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is paperbound edition with price $14.95.

Banks Collection copy page 53 has black square taped to page following line 15 ("voice. Taylor toured regularly in the seventies,"). The sentence is completed on page 54.

ISBN:

0060525444

OCLC:

52937841