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Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture
Author(s): William Barlow (Author)
- Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
- Publication Date: January 1, 1989
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 404 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780877225836
- ISBN-13: 9780877225836
Book Description
Takes a cultural and historic look at the evolution of the blues from post-Reconstruction to the 1920s
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Many books have been written about the blues, but few with the depth and comprehensiveness of this one. Barlow (radio, television, and film, Howard Univ.) divides his subject into rural and urban blues. Whether exploring the Chicago Blues, the Memphis Blues, or the St. Louis Blues, he makes good use of rare recordings, oral histories, and interviews to trace the genre’s powerful emergence. The book offers a fresh view of the way the blues helped Afro-Americans survive in a hostile social environment. This cultural and musical history is an important balance to the more biographical approach of books like Barry Lee Pearson’s Sounds So Good to Me: The Bluesman’s Story (Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr., 1984).
– Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Inc., Amherst, Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
– Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Inc., Amherst, Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
