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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues Hardcover - 2004
by Elijah Wald
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THERE HAS PROBABLY BEEN MORE ROMANTIC FOOLISHNESS written about blues in general, and Robert Johnson in particular, than about any other genre or performer of the twentieth century.
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- Title Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
- Author Elijah Wald
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 342
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Amistad Press, New York
- Date January 6, 2004
- ISBN 9780060524234 / 0060524235
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.17 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.97 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Johnson, Robert, Blues musicians - Mississippi
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003052287
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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New York:: Amistad,, 2004.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. In this combination history of blues music and biography of Robert Johnson, Wald, a blues musician himself, explores Johnson's rise from a little known guitarist who died in 1938 to one of the most influential artists in rock and roll. From the blues' meager beginning in the early 1900s to its '30s heyday and its 1960s revival, Wald gives a revisionist history of the music, which he feels, in many instances, has been mislabeled and misjudged. Though his writing sometimes reads like a textbook, and he occasionally gets bogged down in arcane musical references, Wald's academic precision aids him in his quest to re-analyze America's perception of the blues as well as in trying to decipher the music's murky true origins and history. Using a lengthy comparison of how white Americans and black Americans define the blues, Wald demonstrates how Johnson fit into the gray area between the two. Wald combines a…
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