Love in vain [electronic resource] : a vision of Robert Johnson / Alan Greenberg ; foreword by Martin Scorsese ; introduction by Stanley Crouch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Alan.

Contributor:

Scorsese, Martin.

Crouch, Stanley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American musicians--Drama.

African American musicians.

Blues musicians--Drama.

Blues musicians.

Johnson, Robert, -1938--Drama.

Johnson, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st University of Minnesota Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan Greenberg's remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert Johnson's life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on Johnso

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; LOVE IN VAIN; Photographs; Notes; Bibliography; Permissions; About the Author

Notes:

Originally published in 1983 by Doubleday.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-8217-8

OCLC:

833767356