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The Land Where the Blues Began
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Product Details
Author:
Alan Lomax
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
560
Publisher:
The New Press (November 1, 2002)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781565847392
ISBN-10:
1565847393
Weight:
29.76oz
Dimensions:
6.1" x 9.2"
Case Pack:
16
File:
TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260930163312-20260930.xml
Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$40.00
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$38.00
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
H
Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
United States
Imprint:
The New Press
Pub Discount:
35
Overview
A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930's and '40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta's music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him.
The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax's “stingingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey” (Kirkus Reviews) through America's musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax's “discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread” (The New York Times Book Review). The Land Where the Blues Began captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history.
Winner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, The Land Where the Blues Began is now available in a handsome new paperback edition.
The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax's “stingingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey” (Kirkus Reviews) through America's musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax's “discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread” (The New York Times Book Review). The Land Where the Blues Began captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history.
Winner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, The Land Where the Blues Began is now available in a handsome new paperback edition.
