A Classic of Blues Literature inductee into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame Drawing on archives and interviews with musicians, Red River Blues remains an acclaimed work of blues scholarship. Bruce Bastin traces the origins of the music to the turn of the twentieth century, when African Americans rejected slave songs, worksongs, and minstrel music in favor of a potent new vehicle for secular musical expression. Bastin looks at the blues' early emerging popularity and its spread via the Great Migration, delves ...
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A Classic of Blues Literature inductee into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame Drawing on archives and interviews with musicians, Red River Blues remains an acclaimed work of blues scholarship. Bruce Bastin traces the origins of the music to the turn of the twentieth century, when African Americans rejected slave songs, worksongs, and minstrel music in favor of a potent new vehicle for secular musical expression. Bastin looks at the blues' early emerging popularity and its spread via the Great Migration, delves into a wealth of field recordings, and looks at the careers of Brownie McGhee, Blind Boy Fuller, Curly Weaver, Sonny Terry, and many other foundational artists.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publishers red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0252012135 Pages: 379 Fine in fine dust jacket. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.
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Supports Goodwill of Silicon Valley job training programs. The cover and pages are in Good condition! Any other included accessories are also in Good condition showing use. Use can included some highlighting and writing page and cover creases as well as other types visible wear.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ has faint sun to spine.
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Near Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Octavo. 112pp., photographs. Illustrated wrappers. A bit of rubbing along the spine, near fine. Excellent scholarly study of the blues tradition in the Carolinas and North Georgia.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0252012135. First edition. From the library of record executive and Blues scholar Lawrence Cohn. Fine in fine dust jacket. (379pp. ) Uncommon in the cloth issue.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 379 pages.
