About this title: The legendary study of the blues by one of America's premier writers and critics.. This study of the blues by one of Americas premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular musica blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.
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Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. 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
Description: Good. 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
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine hinge creased/ several pages and page tips creased. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780394712031ISBN:039471203X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean & unmarked copy, paper shows some age. 264 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Includes Illustrations. Reprint. Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Includes index. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780306803628ISBN:0306803623
Description: VG. Second Edition; Minor shelf wear. Note to previous owner on front end paper. Pages clean, binding solid.; Da Capo Paperback; 264 pages. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1982
Description: Near fine stiff wraps with square spine and profusely illustrated text throughout. Blurb from Ralph Ellison "no respsonible critic of American culture will be able to approach this task without consulting Mr. Murray's elegant insight". Trifle crease to cover. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780394712031ISBN:039471203X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 264 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Includes Illustrations. Reprint. Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Includes index. read more
Description: Good. 0070440743 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1982-09-12
ISBN-13:9780394712031ISBN:039471203X
Description: Like New. GIFT QUALITY Softcover, 1982 First Vintage Books Edition stated. APPEARS UNREAD. Well-preserved, clean copy with colorful, glossy jacket. Extremely minor shelf wear only. Very nice! Analysis of Blues music as an art form. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Quartet Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780704332003ISBN:0704332000
Description: Good. Paperback. Usual light spine creasing. Contents clean and tight, covers rubbed and bumped and lightly creased. Clean and sound with some reading wear. Over twenty years selling secondhand books. read more
Edition: 1st UK ed.
Binding: Brown/gilt
Publisher: Quartet Books Limited, London
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780704321724ISBN:0704321726
Description: B/W photos. Hardcover. DJ spine sunned, light soil, chips. NF in VG dj. Mylar, Whit/blue/yel. Quarto, 264 pp., Murray rewrites all previous definitions of the blues as music. It is the music of good-times, not despair. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Quartet Books, London
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780704332003ISBN:0704332000
Description: "produced and art directed" by Harris Lewine. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. [7], 264p. : ill., facsims., ports.; 26 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits, Facsimiles. This is a later printing of the British trade paperback edition in very good condition. History & analysis of the blues "which redefines our previous notions of the blues as music. " Great BW photos. throughout. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780070440746ISBN:0070440743
Description: Near Fine/Very Good. 0070440743 Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Decorated endpapers. Clean and tight. Ownership signature to half-title, no other markings. Underlining to a few words, in red ink, on one page. Errata slip laid-in. Jacket shows shelfwear and has 1" closed tear to front panel and wear to extremities. $17.50 price present on flap. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the musicians, reproductions of their record labels and sheet music. 264pp. read more
Description: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Illustrated throughout without black and white photographs. Owner's name and address else a tight, fine book in a bright, fine DJ. read more
Edition: 1st U.K. pbk
Binding: First?
Publisher: Quartet Books, London
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780704321724ISBN:0704321726
Description: Good. 26 cm, 264, wraps, illus., facsims., index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. This work redefines our previous understanding of The Blues as music. Far from being the musical expression of personal anguish, defeat, and resignation, it has been good-time music, to be danced to, and the lyrics, however powerful, were secondary to the music. Enhanced with vintage photographs. read more
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