Title Pioneers of the blues revival / Steve Cushing ; introduction by Barry Lee Pearson

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource Series Music in American life Music in American life. Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction by Barry Lee Pearson -- Preface by Steve Cushing -- Paul Oliver -- Sam Charters -- Pete Whelan -- Dick Waterman -- Gayle Dean Wardlow -- Robert M.W. Dixon -- Bob Koester -- John Broven -- Mike Rowe -- Ray Flerlage -- Jim O'Neal -- Richard K. Spottswood -- Jacques Demetre -- Phil Spiro -- Chris Barber -- David Evans -- Chris Strachwitz -- List of interviews -- Index Summary Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues before Sunrise, has spent over thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In Pioneers of the Blues Revival, he interviews many of the prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Opinionated and territorial, the American, British, and French interviewees provide fascinating first-hand accounts of the era and movement. Experts including Paul Oliver, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Sam Charters, Ray Flerledge, Paul Oliver, Richard K. Spottswood, and Pete Whelan chronicle in their own words their obsessive early efforts at cataloging blues recordings and retrace lifetimes spent loving, finding, collecting, reissuing, and producing records. They and nearly a dozen others recount relationships with blues musicians, including the discoveries of prewar bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White, and the reintroduction of these musicians and many others to new generations of listeners. The accounts describe fieldwork in the South, renew lively debates, and tell of rehearsals in Muddy Waters's basement and randomly finding Lightning Hopkins's guitar in a pawn shop. Blues scholar Barry Lee Pearson provides a critical and historical framework for the interviews in an introduction Notes Includes index Print version record SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject Blues (Music) -- History and criticism Ethnomusicologists -- Interviews Sound recording executives and producers -- Interviews Musicologists -- Interviews Sound recordings -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 20th century MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues. Sound recordings -- Collectors and collecting Sound recording executives and producers Musicologists Ethnomusicologists Blues (Music) Blues musicians Blues Musikwissenschaftler Sammler Publizist United States Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Biographies Interviews Form Electronic book Author Pearson, Barry Lee, writer of introduction LC no. 2019716497 ISBN 9780252096204 0252096207 130685735X 9781306857352

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