A
self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan
Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930’s and
‘40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love
of the Delta’s music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and
hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as
Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom
made their debut recordings with him.
The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax’s “stingingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey” (Kirkus Reviews) through America’s musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax’s “discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread” (The New York Times Book Review). The Land Where the Blues Began captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history.
Winner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, The Land Where the Blues Began is now available in a handsome new paperback edition.
The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax’s “stingingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey” (Kirkus Reviews) through America’s musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax’s “discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread” (The New York Times Book Review). The Land Where the Blues Began captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history.
Winner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, The Land Where the Blues Began is now available in a handsome new paperback edition.
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Lo leí el año pasado en castellano. La manera de Lomax de escribir el libro no me gusta especialmente, pero el material de base es suculento. ¡Mil gracias por subirlo aunque sea en inglés, algún día lo aprenderé suficientemente!
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Coincido contigo. Creo que se llamaba "La tierra que vio nacer el blues", y tuve la suerte de encontrarlo en la biblioteca municipal de mi ciudad. ¡Por suerte siempre hay gente que apuesta por la cultura! Buen inicio de semana ;)
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