The blues, the authentic narrative of my music and culture, Chris Thomas King
Type
Label
The blues, the authentic narrative of my music and culture, Chris Thomas King
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The blues
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Chris Thomas King
Sub title
the authentic narrative of my music and culture
Summary
An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist. All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths. This book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one. As early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated sportsman's paradise-the frontier was still in the process of being cleared and drained, for cultivation? Expecting these findings to be controversial in some circles, King has buttressed his conclusions with primary sources and years of extensive research, including a sojourn to West Africa and interviews with surviving folklorists and blues researchers from the 1960s folk-rediscovery epoch? New Orleans, King states, was the only place in the Deep South, where the sacred and profane could party together without fear of persecution, creating the blues
Target audience
adult
Classification
Contributor
Creator
Subject
- African American musicians
- Blues-rock music + History and criticism
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Blues (Music) + Influence
- Popular music -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Electronic books
- King, Chris Thomas
- Blues (Music) + History and criticism
- Rhythm and blues music -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism
- Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Blues (Music) -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Blues musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Rhythm and blues music + History and criticism
- Blues (Music) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- Music -- History and criticism
- Musicians -- Southern States
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- Subject16
- African American musicians
- Blues-rock music + History and criticism
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Blues (Music) + Influence
- Popular music -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Electronic books
- King, Chris Thomas
- Blues (Music) + History and criticism
- Rhythm and blues music -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism
- Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Blues (Music) -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Blues musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Rhythm and blues music + History and criticism
- Blues (Music) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- Music -- History and criticism
- Musicians -- Southern States
- Content1
- Author1