Blues From The Delta
Seiten
1988
Da Capo Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-306-80327-7 (ISBN)
Da Capo Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-306-80327-7 (ISBN)
"William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and firsth"
William Ferris, director of the centre for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and firsthand experience with blues musicians and the culture that informs the music. The poetry, games, house parties, religious and secular traditions of black life in the Delta are explored in living prose that is also a work of immense scholarship.
William Ferris, director of the centre for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and firsthand experience with blues musicians and the culture that informs the music. The poetry, games, house parties, religious and secular traditions of black life in the Delta are explored in living prose that is also a work of immense scholarship.
William Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the centre for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris coedited the encyclopaedia of Southern Culture and is the author of Blues from the Delta. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine named him among the top ten professors in the United States.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.8.1988 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 208 x 140 mm |
| Gewicht | 334 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues |
| ISBN-10 | 0-306-80327-5 / 0306803275 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-306-80327-7 / 9780306803277 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
zur politischen Ästhetik des Jazz
Buch | Hardcover (2023)
Phillip Reclam (Verlag)
CHF 49,90
Die Geschichte des Jazz in Deutschland
Buch | Softcover (2021)
Reclam, Philipp (Verlag)
CHF 31,90
