From Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
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A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this book, the author reconstructs the origins of the blues. Historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates the story as we know it is largely a myth. Following the trail of characters like Howard Odum, who combed Mississippi s back roads with a cylinder phonograph to record vagrants, John and Alan Lomax, who prowled Southern penitentiaries and unearthed the rough, melancholy vocals of Leadbelly, and James McKune, a recluse whose record collection came to define the primal sounds of the Delta blues, Hamilton reveals this musical form to be the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music.By excavating the history of the Delta blues, Hamilton reveals the extent to which American culture has been shaped by white fantasies of racial difference. Seller Inventory # 28565
Bibliographic Details
Title: In Search of the Blues.
Publisher: Basic Books.
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 2nd Edition
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