Walking A Blues Road: A Selection of Blues Writing 1956-2004 - Couverture souple

Charters, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714531073 ISBN 13 : 9780714531076

Editeur : Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Samuel Charters belongs to a small group of writers about music whose work has transformed their -subject-without his discoveries, insights and interventions, the history of blues over the past 50 years would have been very different. This book is a -collection of his writings from 1954 to 2004. Samuel Charters walks us from Houston, Texas alongside "Lightnin'" Hopkins and "Thunder" Smith to Memphis and Willie B, and on to St. Louis. The book includes chapters from his writing on the poetry of the blues and on country music.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Now in his seventies, Sam Charters is a jazz expert with over 11 books on jazz to his name. His 1959 book The Country Blues was the first serious examination of this seedbed of virtually all American music. He followed this book with The Legacy of the Blues and The Roots of the Blues (all Marion Boyars publications).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714531073
• ISBN 13: 9780714531076
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible