About this title: Lomax, who has done more than anyone else to make the black music of the South known as one of the glorious expressions of American art, sums up his 60 years of "discovering" the African-American musical heritage in this singular journey through the Mississippi Delta. 16 pages of photographs.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679404248ISBN:0679404244
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679404248ISBN:0679404244
Description: Fair. Dust Jacket Included. BB. Ex-library hardback with identifiers. Spine cracked. Front board nearly separated from binding. Text pages are clean, unmarked. Jacket protected by plastic. All items are carefully and securely packed to insure they arrive in the advertised condition. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679404248ISBN:0679404244
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. text clean and tight, front endpg excised neatly. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 539 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Pr
Date Published: 2002-11-01
ISBN-13:9781565847392ISBN:1565847393
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781565847392. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781565847392ISBN:1565847393
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679404248ISBN:0679404244
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Ex Library and never taken out! Pages are clean and bright. Book has DJ and is in library plastic! Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 539 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. This is one of those worthwhile reads that doesn't leave your mind when you're through! Mr. Lomax has been one of the foremost and authoritative sources for the History of both Folk Music and the Blues! Ex Library, but never loaned out! Clean, bright copy in ... read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: THE NEW PRESS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781565847392ISBN:1565847393
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 560 pages. (560 pages) winner of the us national book critics circle award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country, with a new companion cd from rounder records. 32pp b&w photographs edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Description: New. 0679404244 NEW * FIRST EDITION /FIRST PRINTING * Hardcover w/ beautiful Dust Jacket ~ all books carefully examined & well packaged. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon; (1993), NY
Description: First printing of the first edition, fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket is price clipped and just slightly edgeworn. There is an inscription on the front endpaper that reads: "November 12, 1993/As you taught me, I/ do as the Bible says: / Honor thy father. And thy father's name. / Katherine Lomax Stevens/ and family/Happy Birthday". I am assuming, but do not know, that Katherine Lomax Stevens is the author's daughter. read more
Description: Pantheon, 1993, 1st ed., review copy, hardcover, near fine in near fine dj (diagonal crease to rear fep), in mylar, music, case, blm50. read more
Description: Pantheon, 1993, Uncorrected Bound Galleys, softcover, very good condition (light soiling to edge of back cover), music, case, blm50. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NEW PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781565847392ISBN:1565847393
Description: New. Folklorist Lomax offers a rollicking memoir of his journey back into blues country. A "singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey" ("Kirkus Reviews"). of photos. read more
"I read it in preparation for a trip to the Mississippi Delta. It took a little time to get into this book, but once there it was a fascinating read. As many others have noted, this book is partly a story about the blues and partly autobiography. The stories in this book were enlightening and entertaining. The book is equal parts story telling, historical data, and preaching about civil rights. Those stories are well told."
"presenting stories as necessary as the music he recorded, lomax has done us a great service in conceiving of this book, telling the tales of a white man in the black south. he should have left the writing to someone else, though."
"Not only is this a fascinating account of the roots of the blues, told in the voices of the people that were its living architects, but Alan Lomax's love for his interviewees and his real sympathy for their hard, hard lives rings through on every page. Lomax is personally responsible for saving some of the greatest folk musics of the world from being completely lost, and we owe him immensely for this grand service."
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