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Pioneers of the Blues Revival

Pioneers of the Blues Revival - Music in American Life

Hardback (10 Jun 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues Before Sunrise, has spent more than thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In the expanded second edition of Pioneers of the Blues Revival, Cushing adds new interviewees to the roster of prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Rare interview material with experts like Mack McCormick supplements dialogues with Paul Garon, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Paul Oliver, Sam Charters, and others in renewing lively debates and providing first-hand accounts of the era and movement. Throughout, the participants chronicle lifetimes spent loving, finding, collecting, reissuing, and producing records. They also recount relationships with essential blues musicians like Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White-connections that allowed the two races to learn how to talk to each other in a still-segregated world.

Book information

ISBN: 9780252038334
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 781.643092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 998g
Height: 256mm
Width: 184mm
Spine width: 30mm