Stomping the Blues - Softcover

Murray, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517903920 ISBN 13: 9781517903923

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2017

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Críticas:

"Murray is possessed of the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feeling."--The New Yorker "A flamboyant, insightful examination and evocation of the sources, styles, and mythologies of blues music."--Newsweek "One fine lyrical history of the music. Murray demonstrates the central role of blues/jazz in American culture, telling us about the nature of our past, present and future: which of course is exactly what the blues is."--San Francisco Review of Books "Beautifully illustrated with vivid period photos, LP covers, and broadsides of black jazz icons, Stomping the Blues represents the zenith of Murray's writing on the subject."--Rolling Stone

Reseña del editor:

In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that "the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so it is actually expected to generate a disposition that is both elegantly playful and heroic in its nonchalance." In Stomping the Blues Murray explores its history, influences, development, and meaning as only he can. More than two hundred vintage photographs capture the ambiance Murray evokes in lyrical prose. Only the sounds are missing from this lyrical, sensual tribute to the blues.

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• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1517903920
• ISBN 13: 9781517903923
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272