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Books : In Search of the Blues: Black Voices, White Visions
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In Search of the Blues: Black Voices, White Visions by: Marybeth Hamilton List Price: £12.99 Price: £4.74 You Save: £8.25 (64%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780224060189 ISBN: 022406018X Label: Jonathan Cape Ltd Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape Ltd Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: January 25, 2007 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd Studio: Jonathan Cape Ltd Sales Rank: 276522 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - How peoplr chose your blues!This is an interesting read for lovers of early blues. It is not about musical details - you won't find out about Robert Johnson's guitar tunings, or who influenced Muddy Waters. Rather, it discusses the people who collected the blues via recordings (e.g. the Lomax family) and those early collectors who decided what should be regarded as good music. The author is concerned with the motives of early enthusiasts, who filtered the music for us. For example, some sought out music that was uninfluenced by radio or gramaphone, some were politically motivated, looking for music of the people, and some looked for great art in the blues. Sometimes, the book is rather dryly academic in style, but don't let that ... Read More: Rating:  - How the blues got distorted by the white man's prismThis is a complete labour of love - well-researched and wonderfully readable. A unique approach compared to the more familiar histories of the blues. The result is like hearing an alternate take of a much loved record. You don't just listen - you really hear it for the first time. It shows how far so many messengers can unwittingly distort a story. The earliest middle class researchers and collectors described here bring with them startling degrees of prejudice and stereotyping quite foreign to us now. Yet they have been responsible for creating some of the most enduring myths of the genre. Treating the black man's art as an artefact to be unearthed as would an archeologist, yet surprised and hurt when their all too human discoveries inconveniently ... Read More: Rating: - FascinatingFirst, a warning. The front cover picture is a little misleading. This book is not really about the black americans who made the blues. If that's what you want you'd be better off buying 'The land where the blues began' by Alan Lomax. This book is about the folk-song collectors, journalists, record collectors and others who shaped our view of the music. I hadn't realised that the whole taxonomy of jazz & blues, country blues, delta blues etc. was invented and applied retrospectively. Mostly in the blues revival of the 60s and by non-performers. Fascinating. |
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