The arrival of B. B. King : the authorized biography / Charles Sawyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawyer, Charles.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King, B. B.

African American musicians--Biography.

African American musicians.

Blues musicians--United States--Biography.

Blues musicians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 pages, 80 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.

Contents:

Prelude

Part One: The Artist in Perpetual Motion. Living by the Odometer

Part Two: A Black Horatio Alger. Mississippi Sharecroppers; Memphis Blues Boy; Chitlin Circuit Rider; The Fallow Years; The Rise of the Urban Blues; The Arrival of B. B. King

Part Three: Looking through the Kaleidoscope. The Once and Future King; The Music Alone

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes annotated discography of B. B. King Recordings, 1949-1980 (pages 236-263) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".

Banks Collection copy has "First edition" statement wanting.

ISBN:

0385159293 :

OCLC:

6447350