Research Catalog

Title

Shreveport sounds in black & white / edited by Kip Lornell and Tracey E.W. Laird.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lornell, Kip, 1953-
• Laird, Tracey E. W.

Description

xx, 358 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

American made music series

Alternative Title

Shreveport sounds in black and white

Subjects

• Folk music > Louisiana > Shreveport > History and criticism
• Folk musicians > Louisiana

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Country. Introduction from Louisiana Hayride : radio and roots music along the Red River / Tracey E.W. Laird ; The Grigg family and the Taylor-Griggs Melody Makers : the history of a north Louisiana string band / Monty Brown ; The Cox family / Susan Roach ; Remembering Hiter Colvin, the fiddle king of Oilfield and Gum Stump / J. Michael Luster ; Sing it good, sing it strong, sing it loud : the music of Governor Jimmie Davis / Kevin Fontenot ; Louisiana's honky-tonk man : Buddy Jones, 1935-41 / Donald Lee Nelson ; Interview with Horace Logan, October 13, 1976 / Earl Porter ; Getting the sound right : Bob "Sully" Sullivan, KWKH, and the Louisiana Hayride / Steven Morewood ; Beyond country music / Tracey E.W. Laird -- Blues. Fannin Street / Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell ; Some Negro songs heard on the hills of north Louisiana / Vallie Tinsley ; Jerry's saloon blues : 1940 field recordings from Louisiana / Paul Oliver ; Jesse "Babyface" Thomas / Eleanor Ellis ; The Flying Crow blues / Paul Swinton ; The legend of old blue goose / Dan Garner ; Down-home postwar blues in Shreveport / John M. Shaw -- Radio, records, and rhythm. A historical study of programming techniques and practices of radio station KWKH, Shreveport, LA, 1922-1950 / Lillian Jones Hall ; A friend in Las Vegas / H. Allen Smith ; Stan Lewis / Randy McNutt ; "Reconsider me" : Margaret Lewis Warwick and the Louisiana Hayride / Tracey E.W. Laird ; The making of Dale Hawkins / David Anderson and Lesley-Anne Reed ; The life and times of Dandy Don Logan / Don Logan ; Shreveport southern soul : the Murco story / John Ridley ; Eddie Giles and Reuben Bell : synonymous with Shreveport / John M. Shaw ; Shreveport's pop/rock music scene : the 1970s and 1980s / John Andrew Prime.

Call Number

JME 08-388

ISBN

• 9781934110416 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1934110418 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781934110423 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1934110426 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007021404

OCLC

vendor

Title

Shreveport sounds in black & white / edited by Kip Lornell and Tracey E.W. Laird.

Imprint

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Series

American made music series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Lornell, Kip, 1953-

Laird, Tracey E. W.

Research Call Number

JME 08-388

Sc E 08-1267