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9780252083617 Academic Inspection Copy

Pioneers of the Blues Revival

  • ISBN-13: 9780252083617
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Steve Cushing, Introduction by Barry Lee Peterson
  • Price: AUD $75.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
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  • Local release date: 16/04/2018
  • Format: Paperback 480 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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An updated edition of the acclaimed collection with new, rare interviews
 
In the second edition of Pioneers of the Blues Revival, Steve Cushing adds new interviewees to the roster of prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advo­cacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Rare interview material with experts like Mack McCormick supplements dialogues with Paul Garon, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Paul Oliver, Sam Charters, and others in renewing lively debates and providing first-hand accounts of the era and movement. Throughout, the participants chronicle lifetimes spent loving, finding, col­lecting, reissuing, and producing records. They also recount relationships with essential blues musicians like Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White— connections that allowed the two races to learn how to talk to each other in a still-segregated world.
 
 
“Mr. Cushing, a longtime blues broadcaster, gathers his own interviews with seventeen figures who forged a legacy that reaches far beyond their record rooms. . . . [W]hatever underlies the mania of this strange tribe of hunters and gatherers, their achievement is undeniable, and America's musical heritage would be much the poorer without their efforts.
- Wall Street Journal
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