The Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Blues write by Chris Thomas King. This book was released on 2021-06-08. The Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of New Orleans for generations to come." —Dr. Michael White, jazz clarinetist, composer, and Keller Endowed Chair at Xavier University of LA An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths. This book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one. As early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated sportsman's paradise—the frontier was still in the process of being cleared and drained for cultivation.? Expecting these findings to be controversial in some circles, King has buttressed his conclusions with primary sources and years of extensive research, including a sojourn to West Africa and interviews with surviving folklorists and blues researchers from the 1960s folk-rediscovery epoch.? New Orleans, King states, was the only place in the Deep South where the sacred and profane could party together without fear of persecution, creating the blues.
Really the Blues
Really the Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Really the Blues write by Mezz Mezzrow. This book was released on 2016-02-23. Really the Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hailed as an “American counter-culture classic,” this “funny” and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal) Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, and playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Fats Waller. Really the Blues—the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at the insistence of, and with the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe—is the story of an unusual and unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across racial boundaries when few could or did, “the odyssey of an individualist . . . the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everyone was too busy making money.”
All the Blues Come Through
All the Blues Come Through - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All the Blues Come Through write by Metra Farrari. This book was released on 2021-06-11. All the Blues Come Through available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With her smart and playful writing, debut author Metra Farrari cleverly blends chick-lit with a dash of Greek mythology—the product a winning combination of smart-alecky wit, dreamy escapism, and a quirky yet lovable heroine. Ryan Bell is your typical millennial: surviving on a diet of wine and Netflix, woefully single enough to qualify for cat-lady membership, and renting from a seventy-something Tinder-swiping landlord-turned-bestie. But underneath her chipped-off manicure lies a green thumb that has created miraculous flowers capable of saving mankind from cataclysmic climate change. There's one problem: Only Ryan can grow them. An unusual audience comes to an unorthodox conclusion: Ryan is the heir of the Greek god Artemis. Although Ryan thinks these strange, toga-wearing folks are one kalamata olive short of a Greek salad, she reluctantly enters a hidden world where the Olympians are real and magic flows freely (plus a generous serving of Greek hunks). Talk about one epic identity crisis. Magical demigod or not, the fate of civilization—both mortal and godly—now rests on Ryan's shoulders.
The Blues
The Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Blues write by Mike Evans. This book was released on 2014. The Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charts the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South, focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide.
Blues You Can Use (Music Instruction)
Blues You Can Use (Music Instruction) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blues You Can Use (Music Instruction) write by John Ganapes. This book was released on 1995-10-01. Blues You Can Use (Music Instruction) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. (Guitar Educational). A comprehensive source designed to help guitarists develop both lead and rhythm playing. Covers: Texas, Delta, R&B, early rock and roll, gospel, blues/rock and more. Includes 21 complete solos; chord progressions and riffs; turnarounds; moveable scales and more. The audio features leads and full band backing.
