Escaping the Delta

Escaping the Delta

by Wald, Elijah

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Escaping the Delta / Elijah Wald.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2004
  • Edition:First Amistad paperback edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Amistad
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2004

Notes

Hardcover edition published in 2004 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers - title verso.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxvi, 342 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0060524278, 9780060524272
  • oclc:on1017993366
  • LC Classification:ML420.J735
  • Dewey Decimal:782.421643092

Table of Contents

1. The world that Johnson knew -- What is blues? -- Race records: blues queens, crooners, street singers, andhokum -- What the records missed -- Hollers, moans, and "deep blues" -- The Mississippi Delta: life and listening -- 2. Robert Johnson -- A life remembered -- The music -- First sessions: going for some hits -- First sesisons: reaching back -- Second sessions: the professional -- The legacy -- 3. 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?

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Subjects

Biographies Blues (Music) Blues (Music) -- History and criticism.… Blues musicians Blues musicians -- Biography. -- Missis… Criticism, interpretation, etc Johnson, Robert Mississippi

Writers

Wald, Elijah

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