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Pioneers of the blues revival

Title
Pioneers of the blues revival / Steve Cushing ; introduction by Barry Lee Pearson.
Author
Cushing, Steve
Publication
Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors
Pearson, Barry Lee
Description
xxi, 367 pages : illustrations, portraits; 26 cm.
Summary
Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues before Sunrise, has spent over thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In Pioneers of the Blues Revival, he interviews many of the prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Opinionated and territorial, the American, British, and French interviewees provide fascinating first-hand accounts of the era and movement. Experts including Paul Oliver, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Sam Charters, Ray Flerledge, Paul Oliver, Richard K. Spottswood, and Pete Whelan chronicle in their own words their obsessive early efforts at cataloging blues recordings and retrace lifetimes spent loving, finding, collecting, reissuing, and producing records. They and nearly a dozen others recount relationships with blues musicians, including the discoveries of prewar bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White, and the reintroduction of these musicians and many others to new generations of listeners. The accounts describe fieldwork in the South, renew lively debates, and tell of rehearsals in Muddy Waters's basement and randomly finding Lightning Hopkins's guitar in a pawn shop. Blues scholar Barry Lee Pearson provides a critical and historical framework for the interviews in an introduction.
Series Statement
Music in American life
Uniform Title
Music in American life.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes index.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Introduction by Barry Lee Pearson -- Preface by Steve Cushing -- Paul Oliver -- Sam Charters -- Pete Whelan -- Dick Waterman -- Gayle Dean Wardlow -- Robert M. W. Dixon -- Bob Koester -- John Broven -- Mike Rowe -- Ray Flerlage -- Jim O'Neal -- Richard K. Spottswood -- Jacques Demetre -- Phil Spiro -- Chris Barber -- David Evans -- Chris Strachwitz -- List of interviews -- Index.
Call Number
Sc F 14-187
ISBN
  • 9780252038334 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 0252038339 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2014936469
OCLC
861676380
Author
Cushing, Steve, author.
Title
Pioneers of the blues revival / Steve Cushing ; introduction by Barry Lee Pearson.
Publisher
Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Music in American life
Music in American life.
Bibliography
Includes index.
Added Author
Pearson, Barry Lee, writer of introduction.
Research Call Number
Sc F 14-187
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