Blues
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Rollin’ and Tumblin’: The Postwar Blues Guitarists
$32.98 Add to cartROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ – THE POSTWAR BLUES GUITARISTS
- Author: Obrecht, Jas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0879306130
- Language: English
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The Blues: A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World
$39.99 Add to cartCharting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a unique… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0764359754
- Language: English
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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
$21.00 Add to cartThe story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pit
- Author: Gordon, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1608194167
- Language: English
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
$19.00 Add to cartFrom one of this country’s most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0679771263
- Language: English
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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Winner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award
Winner of the MAAH- Author: Brooks, Daphne A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292200
- Language: English
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R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country [With CD Audio]
$21.95 Add to cart“Gorgeous. One of the music–and art–books of the year.” (The Guardian)
A characteristically idiosyncratic tribute by an underground icon to the musical innovators who helped inspire him, R. Crumb’s- Author: Crumb, R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0810930862
- Language: English
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The Land Where the Blues Began
$50.98 Read moreWinner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream
“Without Lomax it’s possible that there woul
- Author: Lomax, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1565847393
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917-1932
$39.95 Add to cartFounded 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 no
- Author: Blackwood, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179140
- Language: English
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Blues People
$16.99 Read more“A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America’s most popular music.” — Langston Hughes
“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And
- Author: Jones, Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 1999
- ISBN10: 068818474X
- Language: English
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
$18.99 Add to cartThe life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America’s deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surro
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0060524278
- Language: English
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Christmas with Elvis: The Official Guide to the Holidays from the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll
$20.00 Read moreCelebrate Christmas with the King of Rock n’ Roll
For Elvis, Christmas at Graceland was a time for family and friends, a respite from the road and the recording studio. It was a time to sing gospel so
- Author: Elder, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 0762469765
- Language: English
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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
$24.95 Read moreFinalist, 2024 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture
A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs- Series: Music Matters
- Author: Denise, Lynnée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1477321187
- Language: English
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Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz
$40.00 Add to cartA visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records.
Founded in 1960 by Chris St- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1797222287
- Language: English
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
$18.99 Add to cartJames Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, “This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it.” Simone has created for herself a world of magnificent peaks. Often compared to Billi
- Author: Simone, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 04, 2003
- ISBN10: 0306813270
- Language: English
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Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews
$45.00 Read moreDeep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Cooper, Margo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1496847415
- Language: English
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Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King
$18.99 Add to cart“A treasure trove of information…told with real feeling.” —Washington Post Book World
“Charming…honest…transcendent…. It reads like a warm and lengthy conversation with a close friend.” —Bill
- Author: King, B. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 08, 2011
- ISBN10: 0062061038
- Language: English
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