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  • Biography of a Phantom

    A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

    de Robert Mack McCormick ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK OF 2023The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert “Mack” McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a myth as the musician himself"This is a human and humane book, an insightful exploration of the biographer’s craft. [...] ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Audiolibro

    Biography of a Phantom

    A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

    de Robert Mack McCormick ...
    Narrado por Adam Verner ...

    Completo

    8 hora 46 minutos

    When blues master Robert Johnson's recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. Biography of a Phantom is musicologist Mack McCormick's search, from the late 1960s until McCormick's death in 2015, to uncover Johnson's life story. McCormick spent decades reconstructing ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Crossroads

    The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson

    de Tom Graves ...
    The result of careful research, this stylish biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend. According to some, Robert Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi. When he died at age 27 of a mysterious poisoning, many superstitious fans came to believe that ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beautiful Jim Key

    The Lost History of the World's Smartest Horse

    de Mim E. Rivas ...
    The remarkable true saga of an exceptional animal—and the no less exceptional man who led him to greatness: "Seabiscuit had nothing on Beautiful Jim Key." — Sacramento BeeBeautiful Jim Key—the onetime ugly duckling of a scrub colt who became one of the most beloved heroes of the turn of the twentieth century—was adored not for his beauty and speed but rather for his remarkable abilities to read, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only

    The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker

    de Patrick McGilligan ...

    $7.99 USD

  • James Stewart

    de Donald Dewey ...
    In this penetrating and riveting biography of one of Hollywood's most beloved screen icons, Donald Dewey probes beneath Jimmy Stewart, the conservative image and ideal, to reveal James Stewart, the actor and the man.Through hundreds of interviews and in-depth analysis of his seventy-five films, the author assesses how the Hollywood man-about-town of the 1930's and 40's - Stewart's lovers included ... Leer más

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  • On Highway 61

    Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

    de Dennis McNally ...
    On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • My Old Kentucky Home

    The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

    de Emily Bingham ...
    "The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home." So begins an American standard, first published as a minstrel song, that became dear to the hearts of millions and ultimately was enshrined as the Kentucky Derby's sonic centerpiece—a popular selling point for Kentucky tourism. Emily Bingham's masterful decoding of Stephen Foster's 1853 ballad reveals that the song was always about slavery and how ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Shmoop US History Guide: Blues Music History

    de Shmoop ...
    Dive deep into the history of Blues Music History anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning US History Guides are now available on your eReader. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert history-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is at ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • To Anyone Who Ever Asks

    The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

    de Howard Fishman ...
    **Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for best biographyThe mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition—and one writer’s quest to understand her life**This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse’s ... Leer más

    Antes $14.99 USD Ahora $7.99 USD

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  • Barrelhouse Blues

    Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues

    de Paul Oliver ...
    In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't't ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Trading Twelves

    The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray

    de Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, Albert Murray ...
    This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion.The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring masterpiece, Invisible Man, and Murray is a professor at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Mirroring a ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD