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Author: Debra Devi
Publisher: True Nature Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781624071850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive dictionary of blues lyrics invites listeners to interpret what they hear in blues songs and blues culture, including excerpts from original interviews with Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, and many others.
Author: Robert Cremer
Publisher: Pulp Hero Press
Published: 2020-11
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ISBN-13: 9781683902768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Calt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0252090713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked "race records" recorded between 1923 and 1949. From "aggravatin' papa" to "yas-yas-yas" and everything in between, this truly unique, racy, and compelling resource decodes a neglected speech for general readers and researchers alike, offering invaluable information about black language and American slang.
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1995-09-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1101548800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac
Author: Kay Shirley
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Published: 1985-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780793534616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mezz Mezzrow
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1590179455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed as an “American counter-culture classic,” this “funny” and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal) Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, and playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Fats Waller. Really the Blues—the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at the insistence of, and with the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe—is the story of an unusual and unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across racial boundaries when few could or did, “the odyssey of an individualist . . . the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everyone was too busy making money.”
Author: Paul Oliver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-09-25
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521591812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1965 by Cassell and Co, this classic and unique text in blues history, Conversation with the Blues has now been re-issued in a new, larger format. The book takes a slice across blues traditions of all kinds, which were still thriving side by side in 1960. Compiled from transcriptions of interviews with blues singers made by Paul Oliver in 1960, the book tells in the singers' own words of the significance of their music and the turbulent lives it reflects. It is accompanied by a fascinating CD, slipcased on the inside back cover of the book, which captures the stark, ironic but moving narratives of the singers themselves. Included are guitarists, pianists and other instrumentalists from the rural South and the urban North, from famous blues singers who recorded extensively to singers known only to their local communities. Copiously illustrated with Paul Oliver's photographs, the book provides a rare glimpse of African American music at a time when the South was still segregated.
Author: Brian Robertson
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781565121379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis little book transcends geographical, social, and economic boundaries to search the heart and soul of the blues, looking for rules to live by, hope for the downtrodden, cautionary tales for the good times, and truths that "hurt so good". Sometimes, you just gotta be blue. But, as this book goes to show, that's okay--because you're never alone.
Author: Happy Traum
Publisher: Oak Publications
Published: 1968-06-01
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 1783234539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Blues Bag is both a songbook and an instruction book. It is, first of all, an anthology of blues songs, some of which are very well known; others have (as far as I know) never been in print before. As such, it can be used simply as a vehicle for learning new songs, and providing the words and guitar chords for songs you already know. In addition, it provides for the learning guitarist fills, introductions, and turnarounds for the songs, as well as complete instrumental breaks for the majority of the blues presented in this collection. These breaks are written out both in standard music notation and guitar tablature.
Author: Stephen J. Nichols
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1587432129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid investigation of how blues music teaches listeners about sin, suffering, marginalization, lamentation, and worship.
