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Nov 2, 2009 · In spite of Lomax being sometimes controversial, nobody can diminish the importance of Lomax in the Delta Blues research. This book, Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia, goes beyond. Together with Palmer’s Deep Blues, I consider them a mandatory read for a Blues music ...
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Oct 17, 2008 · Throughout the book, Gioia writes about the history of the Delta blues, the performers, and the music with passion and knowledge. The history of the Delta blues can be divided into two large parts. The first is the traditional blues, performed by artists on the farms, plantations, prisons, juke joints, streets, railroad stations of the Delta ...
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Delta Blues is available at these online retailers: Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues by Philip R. Ratcliffe. Born in Avalon, Mississippi, John Hurt would come to personify the region’s sound with his rustic fingerstyle playing after being “rediscovered” in time for the 1960s folk and blues revival.
Jan 1, 2008 · I sensed a richness to these songs, especially the older blues from the Delta tradition, that I had missed before." (p. x) Throughout the book, Gioia writes about the history of the Delta blues, the performers, and the music with passion and knowledge. The history of the Delta blues can be divided into two large parts.
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Nov 2, 2009 · Books. Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music. Ted Gioia. W. W. Norton & Company, Nov 2, 2009 - Music - 480 pages. “The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful ...
An authority on jazz and blues, Ted Gioia is the founder and editor of jazz.com. He has recorded several CDs as a pianist and composer and is the author of five highly regarded books on jazz and roots music. He lives in Plano, Texas. Read More
The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insight, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed "The History of Jazz" - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert ...
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