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Title: The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax ISBN: 1-56584-739-3 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.93 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: In showing us the Blues, Lomax reveals a hidden culture.
Comment: As a native, white expatriot Mississippian, I read with great interest Alan Lomax's account of the genesis of the Blues--which he considers the most important indigenous musical form of the 20th century globally. As grand a claim as this is, Lomax carries the credentials and the experience to back it up. Aside from the music, what he reveals is bitter suffering and unconscionable cruelty against African-Americans, the quality of whose lives was scarcely better than those of their slave grandparents. Out of this tragedy grew an art and a culture than far surpassed that of the oppressors. The poignant majesty of these folk poets is engaging and arresting. Their ability to find beauty, humor, passion, and dignity in lives that were riven with strife speaks of the indomitable spirits of these people. Lomax's research was timely, because much of the music and poetry he heard in the 40's no longer exists, and he chronicles an invaluable chapter in the history of American art and culture. Dr. William Bradley Roberts
Rating: 5
Summary: Soul mining
Comment: Alan Lomax has done more than any living man to unearth the powerful African music heritage that lives in many different genres of American music. This book is only part of the wealth that he has dug up and offered to us, so that we may better know ourselves. Check out the 4CD set of his recordings "Sounds of the South" for a soundtrack to this book.
But no book, no acetate, no film, can adequately depict the pain and suffering that Africans were subjected to in the US. Lomax's work, though, brings us closer, by bringing us the voices of the prisoners, the fieldworkers, the muleskinners, and the roustabouts who lived in a world we can scarce imagine today.
Life was cheap then. People were brutal to one another. By Lomax's account, sex and violence seem to be more unrestrained in the first half of the 19th century than in the second. Today, Arnold kills people with laser guns to make a couple bucks for Hollywood. Then, Boss White would kill a man with a shotgun to the skull, just for complaining.
After having read the book, I caught myself being hopeful for humanity. Maybe we are getting better
Rating: 5
Summary: Read, Then Listen Again And Really "Hear" The Blues
Comment: Think you know the blues? Yeah, well so did I. But after reading this book, coupled with the current PBS series on The Blues, I'm diving back into stuff I've listened to for decades, but never really "heard." Quite possibly the best book ever written on the subject and one that I'll be re-reading for a long time.
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Title: Deep Blues by Robert Palmer ISBN: 0140062238 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues by Gayle Dean Wardlow, Edward Komara ISBN: 0879305525 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Searching for Robert Johnson by Peter Guralnick ISBN: 0452279496 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title:Land Where the Blues Began ASIN: B00006LA2F Publisher: Rounder Select Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.98 |
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Title: Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon ISBN: 0316328499 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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