Chasing the Blues: A Traveler's Guide to America's Music - Couverture souple

Matyas, Josephine; Jones, Craig

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1493060600 ISBN 13 : 9781493060603

Editeur : Backbeat, 2021

Synopsis

Chasing the Blues explores the roots of the blues---the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded in their shared experience of brutal oppression. They used the power of music to survive that oppression, creating a simple-in-structure, emotionally complex form that transformed and upended culture and became the bedrock of popular song.

Tracing the music back to its geographical and cultural origins in the Delta is key to understanding how the blues were shaped. Over time, the Delta blues have touched virtually every form of popular music (rock and roll, soul, R&B, country-western, gospel), creating the soundscape of our lives.

What makes this book unique? Fathoming how the music flowed from living and working conditions in the heart of the Deep South; appreciating how life-changing events like the Flood of 1927 sparked a mass migration away from plantation life, spreading the blues to the cities in the North and becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movement; how blues musicians interacted, "cross-fertilizing" their music by learning, influencing, and imitating each other.

The habits of travel are shifting, and there is more interest and a larger market for diving deep into destinations closer to home. Interest in Black history and culture and the role Black Americans played in shaping America is at an all-time high. By appreciating the roots of this most American style of music, readers will have a richer experience listening to songs and visiting blues' holy and sacred sites.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Josephine Matyas is a full-time travel writer and member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), and The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC). She has traveled and written extensively for more than twenty years on destinations around the globe. Published writing samples, awards, and background information can be found at www.writerwithoutborders.com.

Craig Jones is a lifer-musician trained in political economy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. The eclectic mix of music, history, politics, and current affairs is what drives his career in freelance writing, lecturing at the university level, teaching music, and performing regularly with multiple bands and choirs. Craig has a special interest in politics and has produced magazine and newspaper articles and reports on both music and social justice topics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Backbeat
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1493060600
• ISBN 13: 9781493060603
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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