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The Blues
Elijah Wald
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Description for The Blues
Paperback. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 10 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: AVGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 111 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120.
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues." It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a ... Read more
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues." It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195398939
SKU
V9780195398939
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About Elijah Wald
Elijah Wald is a musician who teaches blues history at UCLA. His books include How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll, Global Minstrels, and Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues.
Reviews for The Blues
A history needn't be long to be both thorough and illuminating. Mr. Wald's no-nonsense 152-page study of the blues deromanticizes a musical genre about which vast amounts of fuzzy-minded nonsense have been written. It would be impossible to pack more critical wisdom-or common sense-into a smaller, shapelier package.
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal