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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
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The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insight, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed "The History of Jazz" - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King and others. Tracing the history of the Delta blues from the field hollers and plantation music of the nineteenth century to the exploits of modern-day musicians in the Delta tradition, "Delta Blues" tells the full story of this timeless and unforgettable music. No cultural force boasts such humble origins or such world-conquering reverberations. In this evocative rags-to-riches tale, Gioia shows how the sounds of the Delta altered the course of popular music.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #106427 in Books
- Published on: 2008-10-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 448 pages
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About the Author
* An authority on jazz and blues, TED GIOIA is the founder and editor of jazz.com. He has recorded several CDs as a pianist and composer and is the author of five highly regarded books on jazz and roots music.
Customer Reviews
A must read for blues enthusiasts
A really superb book if you want to anything about blues and where it originated. Ted Gioia has pulled together a vast amount of research information, from various sources, to produce a book that flows and follows the blues from their origins up to today. The cameo chapters on the all time greats (Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Mississippi John Hurt) in themselves are enlightening as to the characters. However, what Gioia has cleverly achieved in the book is to bring in peripheral and important information on numerous others involved with development of the blues (artists, agents, record producers, etc). A vast number of the peripheral artists did not have the media exposure of the greats but, according to Gioia, they are equally as important to what we know as blues music today. A great read and one I thoroughly recommend.
