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Sounds So Good to Me : The Bluesman's Story / Barry Lee Pearson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1984Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 22 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812211719
  • 9781512818369
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 784.5/3/00922
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Johnny Young's story -- 2. David "Honeyboy" Edwards'Story -- 3. "You know what you're going to get now? Interviews!" -- 4. "I'm Gonna Get Me a Guitar If It's the Last Thing I Do" -- 5. "They Used to Say It Was the Devil's Music" -- 6. "Sounds So Good to Me" -- 7. The wages of sinful music -- 8. "Wasn't only my songs, they got my music too" -- 9. "Well, that's it, that's mv life story" -- 10. "I've had hard luck, but it trill change some day" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The roots of much American music lie in the intensely personal art form of the blues. What bluesmen from W.C. Handy to B.B. King have told us about their lives has shaped America's perception of the blues. These life stories provide central insights into blues music and stand as a fascinating form of narrative in their own right.Barry Lee Pearson has conducted dozens of field interviews and collected over a hundred published autobiographies to present this collective portrait of bluesmen's careers as they themselves tell them: their musical learning, communities, work, pleasures, travels, triumphs, and crises.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Johnny Young's story -- 2. David "Honeyboy" Edwards'Story -- 3. "You know what you're going to get now? Interviews!" -- 4. "I'm Gonna Get Me a Guitar If It's the Last Thing I Do" -- 5. "They Used to Say It Was the Devil's Music" -- 6. "Sounds So Good to Me" -- 7. The wages of sinful music -- 8. "Wasn't only my songs, they got my music too" -- 9. "Well, that's it, that's mv life story" -- 10. "I've had hard luck, but it trill change some day" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The roots of much American music lie in the intensely personal art form of the blues. What bluesmen from W.C. Handy to B.B. King have told us about their lives has shaped America's perception of the blues. These life stories provide central insights into blues music and stand as a fascinating form of narrative in their own right.Barry Lee Pearson has conducted dozens of field interviews and collected over a hundred published autobiographies to present this collective portrait of bluesmen's careers as they themselves tell them: their musical learning, communities, work, pleasures, travels, triumphs, and crises.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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