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American roots music / edited by Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, and Jim Brown ; foreword by Bonnie Raitt.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks ML 3551 .A54 2001 FOLIO
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--United States--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Popular music.
- Folk music.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 232, [4] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : H.N. Abrams, 2001.
- Summary:
- Photographs and text chronicle the history of American roots music, encompassing blues, country and western, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, Native American, and other American genres of folk music.
- Contents:
- Early country : treasures untold / by Charles Wolfe
- The birth of the blues / by David Evans
- The flowering of the folk revival / by Alan Jabbour
- Hallelujah : the sacred music of Black America / by Claudia Perry
- Cajun and zydeco : the musics of French southwest Louisiana / by Ann Allen Savoy
- Música tejana : the music of Mexican Texas / by Manuel Peña
- Native American music of the twentieth century / by William K. Powers
- Native tongue : contemporary native music / by J. Poet
- Keeping it country : tradition and change, 1940 to the present / by Bill C. Malone
- Mojo working : the blues explosion / by Robert Santelli
- Roots music begats rock & roll / by David McGee.
- Notes:
- "A Ginger Group/Rolling Stone Press Book."
- "Based on the PBS series and a collaboration between: the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and Experience Music Project."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237).
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: American roots music.
- ISBN:
- 0810914328
- 9780810914322
- 0810921391
- 9780810921399
- 0810982234
- 9780810982239
- OCLC:
- 46835321
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