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Pioneers of the Blues Revival

Pioneers of the Blues Revival
Author: Steve Cushing
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-06-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0252096207

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Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues before Sunrise, has spent over thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In Pioneers of the Blues Revival, he interviews many of the prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Opinionated and territorial, the American, British, and French interviewees provide fascinating first-hand accounts of the era and movement. Experts including Paul Oliver, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Sam Charters, Ray Flerledge, Paul Oliver, Richard K. Spottswood, and Pete Whelan chronicle in their own words their obsessive early efforts at cataloging blues recordings and retrace lifetimes spent loving, finding, collecting, reissuing, and producing records. They and nearly a dozen others recount relationships with blues musicians, including the discoveries of prewar bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White, and the reintroduction of these musicians and many others to new generations of listeners. The accounts describe fieldwork in the South, renew lively debates, and tell of rehearsals in Muddy Waters's basement and randomly finding Lightning Hopkins's guitar in a pawn shop. Blues scholar Barry Lee Pearson provides a critical and historical framework for the interviews in an introduction.


Blues Before Sunrise

Blues Before Sunrise
Author: Steve Cushing
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010-01-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252033019

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This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, award-winning program focusing on vintage blues and R&B. As both an observer and performer, Cushing has been involved with the blues scene in Chicago for decades. His candid, colorful interviews with prominent blues players, producers, and deejays reveal the behind-the-scenes world of the formative years of recorded blues. Many of these oral histories detail the careers of lesser-known but greatly influential blues performers and promoters. The book focuses in particular on pre–World War II blues singers, performers active in 1950s Chicago, and nonperformers who contributed to the early blues world. Interviewees include Alberta Hunter, one of the earliest African American singers to transition from Chicago's Bronzeville nightlife to the international spotlight, and Ralph Bass, one of the greatest R&B producers of his era. Blues expert, writer, record producer, and cofounder of Living Blues Magazine Jim O'Neal provides the book's foreword.


The Blues Revival

The Blues Revival
Author: Bob Groom
Publisher: London : Studio Vista
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1971
Genre: Music
ISBN:

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History of the Blues

History of the Blues
Author: Francis Davis
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1995-02-04
Genre: Music
ISBN:

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Discusses the history of blues music from its origins in the Mississippi Delta to its peak in Chicago right after World War II to its current popularity with whites in urban clubs. Includes a timeline showing how events in the larger society had an impact on the music.


Blues Before Sunrise 2

Blues Before Sunrise 2
Author: Steve Cushing
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780252042829

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In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally syndicated public radio show. Icons from Memphis Minnie to the Gay Sisters stand alongside figures like schoolteacher Flossie Franklin, who helped Leroy Carr pen some of his most famous tunes; saxman Abb Locke and his buddy Two-Gun Pete, a Chicago cop notorious for killing people in the line of duty; and Scotty "The Dancing Tailor" Piper, a font of knowledge on the black entertainment scene of his day. Cushing also devotes a section to religious artists, including the world-famous choir Wings Over Jordan and their travails touring and performing in the era of segregation. Another section focuses on the jazz-influenced Bronzeville scene that gave rise to Marl Young, Andrew Tibbs, and many others while a handful of Cushing's early brushes with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery, Sippi Wallace, and Blind John Davis round out the volume.Diverse and entertaining, Blues Before Sunrise 2 adds a chorus of new voices to the fascinating history of Chicago blues.


There and Back Again

There and Back Again
Author: Scott Christopher Martinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Blues (Music)
ISBN:

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In the years following World War II, England faced many challenges as it rebuilt. Within this post-war era, a youth culture was created that resented the culturally conservative society of their parents. This group of youth found an escape from their frustrations in American Rock & Roll music. Through this music, a niche audience of British youth discovered the blues. Blues music became the focus of many British teens' lives as a way of moving away from their parent's generation. Rather than blues music being the driving force that shaped these individuals lives, their experiences as adolescents led them to the music, in turn creating the British blues. This thesis provides a narrative for these events through the voices of the individuals that experienced them first hand. Through musicians like Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Muddy Waters, this thesis focuses on the discovery of the blues by British youth and the creation of a blues community in England, as well as the effects of that community on the lives of the American blues musicians who had introduced England to the music. In discovering this music, British blues musicians perpetuated its traditions, introducing it to American audiences and reviving the careers of the African American blues musicians that had influenced them.


Sacred Steel

Sacred Steel
Author: Robert Stone
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-08-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0252035542

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"A Pioneering work on the emergence, development, and current status of a vital but long overlooked tradtition. Enlightening and engaging." --Scott Barretta, musci historian and former editor of Living Blues magazine.


Crossroads

Crossroads
Author: Andrew Mark Cuomo
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003
Genre: Current Events
ISBN:

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An array of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independent thinkers provide a road map for America's political future. America is at a turning point. For the first time in history, the United States is the world's lone superpower--in Andrew Cuomo's words, "both the tamer and target of an unstable world." New technology and the omnipresent media have transformed the way we do everything, from amassing wealth to practicing politics. Simultaneously, the U.S. economy is in a shambles, with the largest federal budget deficit in our history. The coming octogenarian boom promises to put the greatest strain on federal government resources the United States has ever known, and America is faced with new security threats and diplomatic crises daily. The success of our nation in the coming decades will depend on how our elected leaders respond to these challenges. Can the Democrats, divided and ineffectual since well before the crushing defeats of 2002, revitalize their agenda, forge a meaningful message, and end the Republican stranglehold on the federal government? Can Republicans, fresh from new victories, build on their successes? And how will a younger generation, largely alienated from both parties but often intensely political, articulate its desires in the years ahead? The writers invited by Andrew Cuomo to contribute to this landmark book, a who's who of American leadership, address these and other pressing questions of our political life. At once a diagnosis and a call to arms, Crossroads will set the terms of political debate as America moves forward.


Blues, How Do You Do?

Blues, How Do You Do?
Author: Christian O'Connell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 047212112X

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Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white “outsider” observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be. While these scholarly arguments have generated an interesting debate concerning how the music has been framed and disseminated, they have so far only told an American story, failing to acknowledge that in the post-war era the blues had spread far beyond the borders of the United States. As Christian O’Connell shows in Blues, How Do You Do? Paul Oliver’s largely neglected scholarship—and the unique transatlantic cultural context it provides—is vital to understanding the blues. O’Connell’s study begins with Oliver’s scholarship in his early days in London as a writer for the British jazz press and goes on to examine Oliver’s encounters with visiting blues musicians, his State Department–supported field trip to the US in 1960, and the resulting photographs and oral history he produced, including his epic “blues narrative,” The Story of the Blues (1969). Blues, How Do You Do? thus aims to move away from debates that have been confined within the limits of national borders—or relied on clichés of British bands popularizing American music in America—to explore how Oliver’s work demonstrates that the blues became a reified ideal, constructed in opposition to the forces of modernity.


There and Back Again

There and Back Again
Author: Scott Christopher Martinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2015
Genre: Blues (Music)
ISBN:

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In the years following World War II, England faced many challenges as it rebuilt. Within this post-war era, a youth culture was created that resented the culturally conservative society of their parents. This group of youth found an escape from their frustrations in American Rock & Roll music. Through this music, a niche audience of British youth discovered the blues. Blues music became the focus of many British teens' lives as a way of moving away from their parent's generation. Rather than blues music being the driving force that shaped these individuals lives, their experiences as adolescents led them to the music, in turn creating the British blues. This thesis provides a narrative for these events through the voices of the individuals that experienced them first hand. Through musicians like Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Muddy Waters, this thesis focuses on the discovery of the blues by British youth and the creation of a blues community in England, as well as the effects of that community on the lives of the American blues musicians who had introduced England to the music. In discovering this music, British blues musicians perpetuated its traditions, introducing it to American audiences and reviving the careers of the African American blues musicians that had influenced them.