Escaping the delta : Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues /: Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues
• Further Information: Note: Elijah Wald.
• Other Names: Wald, Elijah; Johnson, Robert, 1911-1938
• Contents: The world that Johnson knew. What is blues? ; Race records : blues queens, crooners, street singers, and hokum ; What the records missed ; Hollers, moans, and "deep blues" ; The Mississippi Delta : life and listening -- Robert Johnson. A life remembered ; The music ; First sessions, part one : going for some hits ; First sessions, part two : reaching back ; Second sessions : the professional ; The legacy -- The blues roll on. ; Jump shouters, smooth trios, and down-home soul ; The blues cult : primitive folk art and the roots of rock ; Farther on up the road : wherefore and whither the blues ; Afterthought : so what about the devil?
• Publisher Details: New York : Amistad
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 342 pages)
• Subjects: 782.421643092; Blues musicians -- Mississippi -- Biography; African American musicians -- Mississippi -- Biography; Blues (Music) -- Mississippi -- History and criticism; Musiciens noirs américains -- Mississippi -- Biographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers; African American musicians; Blues (Music); Blues musicians; Mississippi; Blues (Music) -- 1931-1940; collective biographies; Biographies; Blues (Music); Criticism, interpretation, etc; Blues (Music); Biographies; Blues; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062018441; 0062018442
• Related ISBNs: 0060524278; 9780060524272; 0060524235
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.