RED RIVER BLUES: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast. (Music in American Life)

Bastin, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0252012135 / ISBN 13: 9780252012136

Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1986

About this Item

This work offers twenty years of research and personal fieldwork. The author has sought out the origins of black American blues in FLorida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, and points north. Artists such as Blind Boy Fuller, Brownie McGhee, Blind Willie McTell, Buddy Moss, Sonny Terry, and others are profiled as major influences. Included are photographs, endnotes, general index, and a tune index. This copy shows use. There is light foxing to the page edges; the jacket has damp stain, chipping, and is in fresh mylar. The text is clean; a good reading copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: RED RIVER BLUES: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast. (Music in American Life)
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252012135
• ISBN 13: 9780252012136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition First Printing
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

The complete story of the origins and evolution of the black American blues tradition, drawing extensively on oral history interviews.

Reviews

English folklorist Bruce Bastin has written a history of the blues tradition in the Southern Atlantic states. Drawing on extensive interviews and primary sources, he focuses more on the performers than on the music. After describing the sociocultural context of the tradition, the author provides biographical details of its major practioners, mentioning in passing every performer he has been able to identify. The wealth of detail provided is impressive, and serious folklore collections will want this volume. The author's tendency to catalog information, however, leads to a lack of narrative cohesion; the general reader will find this slow going. Bruce Hulse, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence
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