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Pioneers of the Blues Revival
Steve Cushing
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Description for Pioneers of the Blues Revival
Hardback. Contains interviews of many of the prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 424 pages, 89 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 184 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1002.
Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues Before Sunrise, has spent more than thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In the expanded second edition of Pioneers of the Blues Revival, Cushing adds new interviewees to the roster of prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Rare interview material with experts like Mack McCormick supplements dialogues with Paul Garon, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Paul Oliver, Sam Charters, and others in renewing lively debates and providing first-hand accounts of the era and ... Read more
Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues Before Sunrise, has spent more than thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In the expanded second edition of Pioneers of the Blues Revival, Cushing adds new interviewees to the roster of prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Rare interview material with experts like Mack McCormick supplements dialogues with Paul Garon, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Paul Oliver, Sam Charters, and others in renewing lively debates and providing first-hand accounts of the era and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
Music in American Life
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252038334
SKU
V9780252038334
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About Steve Cushing
Steve Cushing has hosted Blues Before Sunrise for over thirty years. He is the author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews. Barry Lee Pearson is a professor of English at the University of Maryland and the author of Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers.
Reviews for Pioneers of the Blues Revival
"The two additional pieces in Pioneers of the Blues Revival requires anybody who was at all taken by the first edition to buy the second edition. The pieces on McCormick and Garon are that essential for the book's completeness."
Robert Pruter, Real Blues Forum "The book makes an extraordinary contribution to the field. . . . The author creates a ... Read more
Robert Pruter, Real Blues Forum "The book makes an extraordinary contribution to the field. . . . The author creates a ... Read more