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The blues : the authentic narrative of my music and culture / Chris Thomas King.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3521 .K56 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Chris Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blues (Music)--History and criticism.
- Blues (Music).
- Blues (Music)--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.
- Blues (Music)--Southern States--History and criticism.
- Blues (Music)--Influence.
- Blues musicians--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Blues musicians.
- Musicians--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Musicians.
- Musicians--Southern States.
- African American musicians.
- African Americans--Louisiana--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Rhythm and blues music--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.
- Rhythm and blues music.
- Rhythm and blues music--History and criticism.
- Blues-rock music--History and criticism.
- Blues-rock music.
- Popular music--Southern States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- King, Chris Thomas.
- Social conditions.
- Music.
- Southern States.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Louisiana.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- The authentic narrative of my music and culture
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- ""A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of New Orleans for generations to come." --Dr. Michael White, jazz clarinetist, composer, and Keller Endowed Chair at Xavier University of LA An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths. This book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one. As early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated sportsman's paradise--the frontier was still in the process of being cleared and drained for cultivation.? Expecting these findings to be controversial in some circles, King has buttressed his conclusions with primary sources and years of extensive research, including a sojourn to West Africa and interviews with surviving folklorists and blues researchers from the 1960s folk-rediscovery epoch.? New Orleans, King states, was the only place in the Deep South where the sacred and profane could party together without fear of persecution, creating the blues." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. My Culture
- 2. The Authentic Narrative
- 3. My Music.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-382) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781641604444
- 1641604441
- OCLC:
- 1179258827
- Publisher Number:
- 99988008140
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