In search of the blues / Marybeth Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Marybeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

Field recordings--United States--History.

Field recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Basic Books, c2008.

Summary:

In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. Following the trail of characters like Howard Odum, who combed Mississippi's back roads with a cylinder phonograph to record vagrants, John and Alan Lomax, who prowled Southern penitentiaries and unearthed the rough, melancholy vocals of Leadbelly, and James McKune, a recluse whose record collection came to define the primal sounds of the Delta blues, Hamilton reveals this musical form to be the culmination of a longstanding white fasci

Contents:

The Delta revisited

Impartial testimony

On the trail of negro folk songs

Sound photographs of negro songs

Been here and gone

The real negro blues.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-293) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-44954-0

9786612449543

0-7867-2214-2

OCLC:

699487756