The ballad of Blind Tom / Deirdre O'Connell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connell, Deirdre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blind Tom, 1849-1908.

Blind Tom.

Pianists--United States--Biography.

Pianists.

Blind musicians.

United States.

Blind musicians--United States--Biography.

African American musicians--Biography.

African American musicians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2009.

Summary:

"Blind Tom stood before the Immense and cultured audience In All Of His Magnificence, a very Hercules in stature. The Enormous building was packed to the doors and outside was A Seething, Struggling, Perspiring Mob Of People, begging for even standing room, but several Thousand disappointed people were turned away unable even to get in earshot of this PRINCE of Pianists. Tom's Playing held the people Spellbound from start to finish; The Audience hesitated even to Applause, so rapt were the listeners of this great Master of Harmony..."

Contents:

Part 1 The Seen and the Unseen

1 A Woman of Good Breeding 15

2 Every Inch a Southern Gentleman 25

3 No Ordinary Child 33

4 Unwritten Legend 45

5 Second Sight 56

6 Star of the Musical World 63

7 The Showman & the Magician 74

8 She Used to Wash My Face 89

Part 2 "Franatics"

9 Some Fellow Might Steal Me 103

10 Thunder of War 112

11 Home Sweet Home 124

12 Fiah Up De Engines! 135

13 Yankee Justice 146

Part 3 Clangorous Agonies

14 The Great Musical Mystery 159

15 Heavenly Tones 172

16 Perpetual Motion 183

17 The Things Revealed 197

Part 4 Fellow Beings

18 The Last American Slave 211

19 "Tom Is Non Compos Mentis" 224

20 Netherworld 236

21 Thunderstorm Requiem 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-278) and index.

ISBN:

1590201434 :

9781590201435 :

OCLC:

233549194