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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
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Robert Palmer
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Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
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}In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been working on Gayes story for several years before the singers tragic death, and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. Drawing from these interviews, Gayes life is ...
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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
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An acclaimed biographer presents a revealing portrait of Sam Cooke--a black performer who appealed to white audiences, wrote his own songs, and controlled his own business destiny. 55 photos.
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Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
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Ray Charles, David Ritz
Brother Ray tells Ray Charles' extraordinary life-story in his own, unique voice. Now with added material, this new edition is published to coincide with the release of Ray - Universal Pictures biopic starring Jamie Foxx. On June 10th 2004, Ray Charles died aged 73 and the world lost a music legend. The story of his life was a compelling one to ...
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The life and legend of Leadbelly
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Charles K Wolfe, Kip Lornell
Huddie Ledbetter, known to his fans as Leadbelly, was among the most prominent black folk singers in American history. He exposed the powerful vein of black southern folk music to the American people by reaching back into his past to share his roots with them. His songs, such as "Goodnight Irene" and "Midnight Special", have become part of ...
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Bessie
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Chris Albertson
A biography of Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the "Empress of the Blues". Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bessie Smith was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African-American performer of the roaring twenties. This revised and expanded edition of the biography of this ...
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
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Peter Guralnick
A fascinating tale of a decade that produced some of the finest music ever . In a narrative that captures all the tumult and liberating energy of a country in division and transition, Sweet Soul Music is the story of the birth of modern rhythm-and-blues. Guralnick records the rise and fall of Stax Records - the Memphis powerhouse label that ...
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The Land Where the Blues Began
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Alan Lomax
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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Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit
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Suzanne E Smith
1960s Detroit was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas; facing off with city police and through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown - as both musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenon - and of its intrinsic ...
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
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Nina Simone is probably best known for her hit "My Baby Just Cares For Me", a re-release which marked the triumphant return of a singer with a remarkable, but tragic career. Often compared to artists like Billy Holiday and Edith Piaf, Nina differs in one essential way - she is a true survivor. Born in North Carolina she suffered poverty and racial ...
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
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Dr Licks, Allen Slutsky, Dr. Licks
If you've ever been moved by a Motown hit -- "Heat Wave", "My Girl", "Reach Out", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - you've been moved by James Jamerson, the bass player who made "The Motown Sound". Six years after his tragic death. Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Smoker Robinson. The Who's John Entwistle, and 30 other stars of the pop-music world ...
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It came from Memphis
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Gordon
The story of the first generation of rock and roll, exploring the reasons that conspired to make Memphis, Tennessee, the birthplace of rock and roll. Robert Gordon describes the careers of several influential musicians and the crosscurrents of business and culture that made rock and roll possible.
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Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power
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Gerald Posner
With an astonishing cast of characters who are familiar worldwide -- Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, and many others--the story of Motown is an American Greek tragedy, the rise and fall of an extended family.
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Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music
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Arthur Kempton
An edition of Arthur Kempton's study of the art, influence, and commerce of Black American popular music.
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A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul
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John A Jackson
"If You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost," "The Soul Train Theme," "Then Came You," "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" - the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts in the 1970s. In A House on Fire, John A. Jackson takes us inside the musical empire created by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell, the ...
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Really the Blues
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Mezz Mezzrow
This is the story of a white boy who fell in love with black culture, learning the clarinet in the clubs frequented by Al Capone, accompanying Bessie Smith in her heyday - a white Jew exploring the world of jazz. It is a searching autobiography, written in the 1940s but with the directness and power of today's most streetwise language. The book ...
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Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
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Daphne Duval Harrison
A contribution to the history of the blues in particular and of Afro-American culture in general, new information about a remarkable set of assertive, creative women as well as new insights into the musical heritage they have left behind. Sippie Wallace, Edith Wilson, Victoria Spivey and Alberta Hunter are the collective focus of this work - four ...
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Tina Turner
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Mark Bego
"New York Times" best-selling celebrity Mark Bego herein delves into another self-made and strong-willed female star, internationally renowned soul/pop vocalist Tina Turner.
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Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story
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Helen Oakley Dance, B B King (Foreword by)
This biography of the blues guitarist is based on a large number of interviews with Walker himself as well as with members of his family and fellow musicians. It offers an insider's account of the life of a blues musician, from wild living on the road to a contented family life at home.
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Story of the Blues
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Paul Oliver
The influence of the blues in popular mainstream music is immense. This history places the inspiration of singers like Muddy Waters in the context of their lives and surroundings. Every facet of the blues is covered from the beginings to the impact of the recording industry and beyond.
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Race, Rock, and Elvis
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In "Race, Rock, and Elvis", Michael T. Bertrand contends that popular music, specifically Elvis's brand of rock 'n' roll, helped revise racial attitudes after World War II. Observing that youthful fans of rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and other black-inspired music seemed more inclined than their segregationist elders to ignore the color line, ...
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Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music
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Jerry Wexler, David Ritz
Jerry Wexler has been called "The Godfather of Soul Music", and, as a music reporter in the late 1940s, he coined the term "rhythm and blues" for what had previously been called "race records". As a partner in Atlantic Records, he participated in the evolution of the modern music business. And as a producer, Wexler worked with Ray Charles, Aretha ...
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The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia
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Robert Santelli
This is a book about the blues: more specifically it's a book about the artists who have helped make the blues one of the richest and most enduring music forms in the music in the world, whose influence has had far reaching implications. It is intended to be a helpful and much used reference book, a companion for a discovery of the blues or, if ...
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Searching for Robert Johnson
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Peter Guralnick
This is an essay on the life and legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers". While probably the most influential of all blues singers, he has remained one of the most historically obscure. He was the chief influence upon Muddy Waters and inspiration for Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and a whole generation of rock and roll. He was well ...
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Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues
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Paul Oliver, Richard Wright (Designer)
This is a new, thoroughly revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues. First published in 1960, this remarkable book has not been superseded and its reappearance will be welcomed by all who wish to understand the complexity of meaning in the blues and the experiences which they expressed. The book examines the functions of the ...
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