Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues - Couverture rigide

Deffaa, Chip

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252022033 ISBN 13 : 9780252022036

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Deffaa Chip

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

”Somebody has to pay the dues,” says LaVern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of six dazzlingly talented performers who blazed the R & B trail the story of the performers' music and also of their struggle against racism and financial exploitation: Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker, two of the most popular female black singers of the 1950s; Little Jimmy Scott, whom Madonna calls the only singer who ever really made her cry; Charles Brown, master of the club blues” style; Floyd Dixon, a more rambunctious fellow-traveler; and the earthy, urbane Jimmy Witherspoon, who recorded some of the biggest R & B hits ever.

Biographie de l'auteur

Chip Deffaa, jazz critic for the New York Post, has written seven other books, including Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen and Swing Legacy. A winner of the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award, he contributes regularly to Entertainment Weekly, JazzTimes, and Crescendo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252022033
• ISBN 13: 9780252022036
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible