Delta Blues
The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
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The definitive account of how the rough sounds of the Mississippi Delta changed the course of American popular music.
The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed The History of Jazz - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others.
Tracing the history of the Delta blues from the field hollers and plantation music of the 19th century to the exploits of modern-day musicians in the Delta tradition, Delta Blues tells the full story of this timeless and unforgettable music. No cultural force boasts such humble origins or such world-conquering reverberations. In this evocative rags-to-riches tale, Gioia shows how the sounds of the Delta altered the course of popular music in America and in the world beyond.
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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An Exciting Opportunity Missed
- De Kindle Customer en 02-02-15
De: Ted Gioia
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Up Jumped the Devil
- The Real Life of Robert Johnson
- De: Bruce Conforth, Gayle Dean Wardlow
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his death at age 27. But the actual story of his life remains unknown save for a few inaccurate anecdotes. Up Jumped the Devil is the result of over 50 years of research. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Robert Johnson since the early 1960s, and he was the person who discovered Johnson's death certificate in 1967.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De William en 03-01-20
De: Bruce Conforth, y otros
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Blues People
- Negro Music in White America
- De: LeRoi Jones
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music - through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz...[If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in the introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good
- De Cara Foss Arellano en 05-06-21
De: LeRoi Jones
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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
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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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK but I have some issues with some of the content
- De Amazon Customer en 08-11-22
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How to Listen to Jazz
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. From Louis Armstrong's innovative sounds to the jazz-rock fusion of Miles Davis, Gioia covers the music's history and reveals the building blocks of improvisation. A true love letter to jazz by a foremost expert.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Kind of useless as an audiobook.
- De Mitch Foster en 02-28-20
De: Ted Gioia
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The Jazz Standards
- A Guide to the Repertoire
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 43 m
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Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions. In this comprehensive and unique survey, here are the songs that sit at the heart of the jazz repertoire, ranging from "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Autumn in New York" to "God Bless the Child," "How High the Moon," and "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." Gioia includes Broadway show tunes written by such greats as George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, and classics by such famed jazz musicians as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and John Coltrane.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great info, but not ideal in audio format
- De Patrick en 08-30-14
De: Ted Gioia
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Music
- A Subversive History
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs. Gioia tells a 4,000-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Squeezing cherry-picked facts into a simplistic narrative
- De Erik A. Ritland en 11-24-20
De: Ted Gioia
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The History of Rock & Roll
- Volume 1: 1920-1963
- De: Ed Ward
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative - from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles prepared for their first American tour.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Author's blindspots mar this book
- De Mark Clark en 03-28-17
De: Ed Ward
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Can't Be Satisfied
- The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
- De: Robert Gordon
- Narrado por: Keb' Mo'
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and-roll band and its wild lifestyle—is chronicled with rare vividness in Robert Gordon’s widely praised biography.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Muddy!
- De govtmule1 en 02-08-25
De: Robert Gordon
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The Blues
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Elijah Wald
- Narrado por: Brian Telestai
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W. C. Handy, who first popularized the blues a century ago.
De: Elijah Wald
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All Things Must Pass Away
- Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs
- De: Kenneth Womack, Jason Kruppa
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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George Harrison and Eric Clapton shared a legendary and tumultuous friendship that shaped not only their respective lives and careers, but the shifting face of rock itself in the early 1970s. All Things Must Pass Away traces that friendship from its earliest roots in 1964, when Beatles-averse blues-rocker Eric met George backstage at the Hammersmith Odeon, through the messy trials of Clapton's affair with Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd, to the turn of the century, as the two elder statesmen of rock traded honors during Harrison's final days.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I know some but not all…
- De Rick R. en 08-25-21
De: Kenneth Womack, y otros
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- De: Jerry Hopkins
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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A quarter of a century after his death, Jimi Hendrix's popularity is undiminished, his place as the preeminent electric guitarist of the age unrivaled. Back in print, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and an updated discography, The Jimi Hendrix Experience gives the whole story of his legendary life and career, the virtuosity and madness, the genius and the rush to self-destruction, as well as the fierce ongoing battle for control over his estate that has been waged since Hendrix's death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Solid Biography
- De Amazon Customer en 01-18-20
De: Jerry Hopkins
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The Jazzmen
- How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
- De: Larry Tye
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Organized and Themed
- De unhae campbell en 05-23-24
De: Larry Tye
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Guitar Zero
- The New Musician and the Science of Learning
- De: Gary Marcus
- Narrado por: Gary Marcus
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or can anyone reinvent him-or herself at any time?
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2 out of 5 stars
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NOT a better way to learn guitar!
- De Walter V en 07-08-12
De: Gary Marcus
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Levon
- From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond
- De: Sandra B. Tooze
- Narrado por: Rosemary Benson
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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Levon is the dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm - the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of The Band.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Shoot the producer!
- De Vince Pienaar en 08-08-21
De: Sandra B. Tooze
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Small Town Talk
- Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
- De: Barney Hoskyns
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country". They headed for Woodstock - not to the site of the infamous music festival of 1969 but to the Catskills, to Bearsville, to Woodstock proper. Counterculture revolutionaries like Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, and Paul Butterfield got "back to the land", turning the once sleepy hollow into a funky Shangri-La.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Captured the era - too many mistakes
- De Frank Canino en 04-17-16
De: Barney Hoskyns
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No Simple Highway
- A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
- De: Peter Richardson
- Narrado por: David Gans
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why - and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the Acid Tests to the band's formation of their own record label to their massive late career success, while probing the riddle of the Dead's vast and durable appeal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best of the dead bios
- De Dan Fenyvesi en 03-09-22
De: Peter Richardson
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3 Shades of Blue
- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
- De: James Kaplan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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In 1959, America’s great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity. James Kaplan’s magnificent 3 Shades of Blue captures how that golden era came to be, and its pinnacle with the recording of Kind of Blue. It’s a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the cities that gave jazz its home, and the Black geniuses behind its rise. It’s an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange environments where it can flourish most.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great deep dive into a pinnacle of jazz, marred by author bias against later jazz years
- De Michael J. Anderson en 04-08-24
De: James Kaplan