Wyman, Bill.
Summary: A history of the Blues genre and its celebrated musicians discusses how African-Americans expressed poverty, injustice, faith, and love in their music as they journeyed from southern plantations to northern cities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 WYMMessenger, Bill.
Summary: Presents an overview of jazz, its elements, and its history. Includes performances by various jazz artists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 781.65 MESSummary: Robert Palmer, author of Deep Blues, and Dave Stewart, a member of Eurythmics, pay tribute to the Mississippi blues and various blues artists. Special features include performance footage outtakes and 45 minutes of bonus audio tracks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSIC DEEWaterman, Dick.
Summary: "Between Midnight and Day is the groundbreaking record of Dick Waterman's most important photographs from his unparalleled vintage blues archive. Beginning in 1964 with the rediscovery of legendary Delta blues singer Son House, Dick Waterman established Avalon Productions, the first agency devoted exclusively to managing and promoting blues musicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 781.643 WATGuralnick, Peter
Summary: "Peter Guralnick's remarkable work... covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us," rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick's earlier work in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 GURCone, James H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbis Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6296 CONBaraka, Amiri
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 JONDavis, Francis.
Summary: "The history of the blues is the companion volume to a three-part PBS series of the same name"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misic WilliamsonCharters, Samuel Barclay.
Contents: Beginnings -- The country blues -- The crazy blues -- Faces of the blues -- The St. Louis Blues -- The blues as poetry -- The blues' angry voice -- Chicago and the south side blues -- Roots, finally -- Origins: the Parchman women's blues -- The legacy of the blues -- Lightnin' again -- Zy-de-blues -- The new blues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marion Boyars 2004