Barrelhouse Blues : Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
by
Paul Oliver
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
046500881X
ISBN-13
9780465008810
Publisher
Basic Books
Imprint
Basic Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 25th, 2009
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
428 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.60 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Blues
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A pioneering scholar of the blues explores the folk traditions that predated and shaped this uniquely American music as we know it.
In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn''t''t been captured on location by these performers and recorders.
Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the forefathers of the blues who were lost before they even had a chance to be heard. A careful excavation of the earliest recordings of the blues by one of its foremost experts, Barrelhouse Blues expands our definition of that most American style of music.
Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the forefathers of the blues who were lost before they even had a chance to be heard. A careful excavation of the earliest recordings of the blues by one of its foremost experts, Barrelhouse Blues expands our definition of that most American style of music.
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