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Cargando... Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records (1984)por Paul Oliver
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. "Blues as performed on the professional stage and, later, folk blues from the South have been extensively discussed by many writers," notes Cambridge University Press on the back cover of the book. "Paul Oliver shows that this emphasis has drawn attention away from the other vocal traditions also available on Race records." Oliver devotes lengthy chapters to each of these previously neglected traditions (dance songs, ragtime numbers, the repertoire of songsters who worked the minstrel and medicine show circuits, the vast body of religious Race recordings from the Baptist and Sanctified churches to nonprofessional "jack-leg" preachers, and finally narrative ballads), producing a study that anyone armed with a little prior knowledge of this music will find fascinating. Naturally these traditions overlapped with the blues, and Oliver discusses a number of major figures (Peg Leg Howell, Henry Thomas, Frank Stokes, Furry Lewis and Charley Patton among them) who today are considered to have been exclusively blues artists, but who actually performed a much wider range of material. A fine scholarly work, profusely illustrated. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this innovatory book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions presented on Race records. When blues first reached a large audience it was through the 'Race records' issued specifically for black purchasers in the 1920s. Blues South have been extensively discussed by many writers. Paul Oliver shows that this emphasis has drawn attention away from the other important vocal traditions also available on Race records: the songs of Southern rural dances, the comic and social songs and ballads of the medicine shows and travelling entertainments, and, even more neglected, the sacred vocal traditions, from the song-sermons of the Baptist and Sanctified preachers to the gospel songs of the church congregations and of the 'jack-leg' preachers and street evangelists. Over 500 artists and 700 song titles are indexed and there is a guide to reissued recordings. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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