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  • Soul-Folk

    Series series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
    Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre, and use it to bring their own traditions to light- the jazz, the blues, the field hollers, the spirituals- and creating something wholly new, wholly ... Leer más

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    Soul-Folk

    Genre: A 33 1/3 Series

    Narrado por Megan Gage ...
    Series series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series

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    3 hora 52 minutos

    Bloomsbury presents Soul-Folk by Ashawnta Jackson, read by Megan Gage.Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre, and use it to bring their own traditions to light— the jazz, the blues, the field ... Leer más

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    The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

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  • Crossroads

    The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson

    de Tom Graves ...
    The result of careful research, this stylish biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend. According to some, Robert Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi. When he died at age 27 of a mysterious poisoning, many superstitious fans came to believe that ... Leer más

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  • Escaping the Delta

    Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

    de Elijah Wald ...
    The 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 surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest figure in blues history.Trying to separate myth from reality, biographer Elijah Wald studies ... Leer más

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  • Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues

    A companion book to the PBS documentary series exploring the history of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music worldwide.A companion to the groundbreaking documentary series, this volume is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them.Included in this stunning collection are:Essays by David ... Leer más

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  • Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z

    A Library of America Special Publication

    Edición de Jonathan Lethem, Kevin Dettmar ...
    The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n’ roll legendsJonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal ... Leer más

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  • Good Booty

    Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music

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    NPR Best Books of 2017In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art ... Leer más

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  • The Blues:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Elijah Wald ...
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    Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no ... Leer más

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  • Electric Shock

    From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music

    de Peter Doggett ...
    Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones and on Spotify.Over that time, popular music has transformed the world in which we live. Its rhythms have influenced how we walk down ... Leer más

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  • Otis Redding

    An Unfinished Life

    “The beloved ’60s soul titan . . . comes alive in [Jonathan] Gould’s insightful, well-researched biography.”—People“Magisterial . . . With meticulous scholarship [and] lively prose . . . Gould has created a vital book that helps contextualize one of the most important figures in pop music.”—Boston GlobeAN NPR AND ROLLING STONE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAROtis Redding remains an immortal presence ... ... Leer más

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  • To Anyone Who Ever Asks

    The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

    **Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for best biographyThe mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition—and one writer’s quest to understand her life**This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse’s ... Leer más

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