The Blues

The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture

De: Chris Thomas King

Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White

Duración: 24 h y 1 m

Resumen del Editor

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 presents facts to disprove such myths. For example, 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. Moreover, this book is the first to argue that the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one.

Protestant states such as Mississippi and Alabama could not have incubated the blues. New Orleans was the only place in the Deep South where the sacred and profane could party together without fear of persecution. 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. They say the blues is blasphemous - the devil’s music. King says they’re unenlightened, that blues music is about personal freedom.

©2021 Chris Thomas King (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Required Reading for Blues Lovers!

This book skewers the popular held myth that Blues is descended from primitive musicians in the Mississippi Delta. Mr. King sets the record straight with compelling evidence that the Blues originated from Creole roots of New Orleans. I highly encourage anyone who loves the Blues to listen to this book. It’s time to stop repeating the big Blues lie!

OK but I have some issues with some of the content

Good book...I'm a musicologist myself with 37 years on the guitar I know the blues came out of New Orleans. My only beef is to call white people appropriators? As a real musician with a brain, once music is out there anyone can take from. Everybody steals. My other beef is that Dylan wouldn't be Dylan without his producer...anyone who understands Dylan knows Bob calls the shots and a producer's job is to get out of his way. That part was retarded...the part about PJ Harvey and the blues was equally dumb...PJ is an original artist who can't be defined. The last part they mentioned England and Scotland...but no mention of Ireland? Celtic folk song were the blueprint of all American music. Anyway it was a good rrad.