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10%OFFRich Remsberg - Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression - 9780252077098 - V9780252077098
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Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression

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Description for Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression Paperback.

Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration photography program. With an appreciation for the amateur and the local, FSA photographers depicted a range of musicians sharing the regular music of everyday life, from informal songs in migrant work camps, farmers' homes, barn dances, and on street corners to organized performances at church revivals, dance halls, and community festivals. Captured across the nation from the northeast to the southwest, the images document the last generation of musicians who learned to play ... Read more

Photographer and image researcher Rich Remsberg breathes life into the images by providing contextual details about the persons and events captured, in some cases drawing on interviews with the photographers' subjects. Also included are a foreword by author Nicholas Dawidoff and an afterword by music historian Henry Sapoznik.

Published in association with the Library of Congress.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077098
SKU
V9780252077098
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Ref
99-1

About Rich Remsberg
Rich Remsberg is an Emmy Award-winning image researcher and a documentary photographer. His credits include Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home and Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, as well as other PBS programs and independent films. He lives in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Reviews for Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression
"These photos . . . strike universal chords . . . with both sweet and bittersweet romance."
Oxford American "The vitality of musical life at a time of such economic hardship is both poignant and surprising.  For what it wordlessly reveals about the history of US music and the history of a critical time, this book is ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression


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