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pro vyhledávání: '"MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues"'
Autor:
Scott Blackwood
Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arrived
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John L. Clark Jr
Blues on Stage presents a new history of the development of the'Classic Blues'of the 1920s, offering a comprehensive review of various Black singers who recorded and were influential in this era, including Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, Butterbeans and
Autor:
Julia Simon
This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come. Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-
Autor:
Julia Simon
Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson mastered multiple instruments. He recorded with ja
Autor:
William Edgar
The Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction—Arts and CultureECPA Top Shelf Award Winner For practitioners and fans, jazz expresses the deepest meanings of life. Its rich history and its distinctive elements like improvisation and syncopation unite to
Autor:
Adam Gussow
Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of'Crazy Blues'set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for'race records.'Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international aud
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B. Brian Foster
How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about Black culture and found himself hearing about the blues. One moment, Black
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Ponton, Douglas Mark, Zagratzki, Uwe
The book is the fruit of Douglas Mark Ponton's and co-editor Uwe Zagratzki's enduring interest in the Blues as a musical and cultural phenomenon and source of personal inspiration. Continuing in the tradition of Blues studies established by the likes
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David Whiteis
Chicago blues musicians parlayed a genius for innovation and emotional honesty into a music revered around the world. As the blues evolves, it continues to provide a soundtrack to, and a dynamic commentary on, the African American experience: the leg
Autor:
Michael Rauhut
For all of its apparent simplicity—a few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American character—blues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts. One Sou