The B.B. King Reader: Six Decades of Commentary - Couverture souple

Kostelanetz, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0634099272 ISBN 13 : 9780634099274

Editeur : Hal Leonard, 2005

Synopsis

B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than five decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs have taken him from tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, to worldwide renown. In this comprehensive volume, the best articles, interviews and reviews about B.B. King's life and career have been gathered. Learn how he first made his mark as a disc jockey in Memphis hawking "Pepticon" elixir and taking the moniker of the "Beale Street Blues Boy"; trace his early tours and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the blues style. Extensively revised second edition · Includes 18 interviews.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Editor Richard Kostelanetz is a longtime fan of B.B. King, having first interviewed him in the late '60s and subsequently written about his career over the decades. Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster's Dictionary of American Authors, The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, NNDB.com, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories. Richard lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hal Leonard
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0634099272
• ISBN 13: 9780634099274
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: Universal Music Group Gmbh; https://www.universalmusic.com/; ; Winterhuder Weg 27; Hamburg; 22085; Allemagne