Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Quartet Books, London
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780704325234ISBN:0704325233
Description: 256p + 8p. illustrations very good first printing, dj. Ownership stamp. This study by the African American bluesmen surveys both the Americas and diverse Africanist traditions-animism, voodoo, and more. read more
Edition: First printing of the First UK Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Quartet Books, London
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780704325234ISBN:0704325233
Description: A Near Fine copy with a mark to the bottom edge in a Fine dust jacket. Finn offers up a fine study of the roots--spiritual, social and anthropological--of the blue genre. He embraces African religions, the slave trade, Voodoo, the early country blues and the modern electric model. He refers to the influences of writers like Zora Neal Hurston and Langston Hughes for their impact on the music form and delivers a substantial study of Robert Johnson. Catalog Coral. read more
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