Boom's Blues (eBook)

Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime

Wim Verbei (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017 | EPUB Single
352 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-1251-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G. Boom (1920-1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the Netherlands was introduced to African American blues music and describes the equally dramatic and peculiar friendship that existed between Boom and jazz critic and musicologist Will Gilbert, who worked for the Kultuurkamer during World War II and had been charged with the task of formulating the Nazi's Jazzverbod, the decree prohibiting the public performance of jazz. Boom's Blues ends with the annotated and complete text of Boom's The Blues, providing the international world at last with an English version of the first book-length study of the blues. At the end of the 1960s, a series of thirteen blues paperbacks edited by Paul Oliver for the London publisher November Books began appearing. One manuscript landed on his desk that had been written in 1943 by a then twenty-three-year-old Amsterdammer, Frank (Frans) Boom. Its publication, to which Oliver gave the title Laughing to Keep from Crying, was announced on the back jacket of the last three Blues Paperbacks in 1971 and 1972. Yet it never was published and the manuscript once more disappeared. In October 1996, Dutch blues expert and publicist Verbei went in search of the presumably lost manuscript and the story behind its author. It only took him a couple of months to track down the manuscript, but it took another ten years to glean the full story behind the extraordinary Frans Boom, who passed away in 1953 in Indonesia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Übersetzer: Scott Rollins
• Zusatzinfo: 97 b&w illustrations; 4 tables
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alabama Blues • Bedbug Blues • Bernice Edwards • Bill Gaither • Billy Banks • Black Snake Swing • Blind Willie McTell • Blues • Chocolate To The Bone • Christmas Mornin’ Blues • Dutch • dutchman • Frans Boom • Gene Campbell • Hamfoot Ham • High Powered Mama Blues • History • Honey You Don’t Know My Mind • Horn of Plenty Blues • It’s Tight Like That • I Whipped My Woman With A Single-Tree • J. Frank G. Boom • Jimmy Rushing • Lonnie Johnson • Luis Russell • Man Killing Broad • Memphis Jug Band • Mississippi John Hurt • music • Oh! Red • Over Humor en Satire in de Jazz • Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers • Robert Hicks • Robert Wilkins • Say Pretty Mama • Scarey Day Blues • Somebody’s Been Playin’ Papa • Spider Crawl • Stack O’Lee Blues • Sweet Potato Blues • Tee-Ninecy Mama • Thinkin’ Funny Blues • Trixie Blues • Trixie Smith • Victoria Spivey • World War II • You Can’t Run Around • Your Friends Gonna Use It Too
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-1251-4 / 1496812514
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-1251-3 / 9781496812513