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River of song : a musical journey down the Mississippi
- Title
- River of song : a musical journey down the Mississippi / by Elijah Wald and John Junkerman ; photographs by Theo Pelletier.
- Author
- Wald, Elijah.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML200.7.M73 W35 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 352 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Companion to the major Smithsonian Institution series for public television and radio, River of Song explores the breadth and depth of American music at the close of the twentieth century - through narrative, photography and the words of the musicians themselves.
- Uniform Title
- Mississippi, a river of song.
- Subjects
- Note
- Companion to the PBS television series The Mississippi, a river of song.
- Bibliography (note)
- Discography: p. 342-348.
- Contents
- Preface / ani difranco -- Introduction / John Junkerman -- Pt. 1. Americans, Old and New. 1. The Powwow Lives On: Chippewa Nation. 2. North Country Fiddles: The Skal Club Spelmanslag. 3. Rockin' the World: Babes in Toyland. 4. Folk Songs in the City: John Koerner. 5. Singing the Message: Sounds of Blackness. 6. Strangers in a Strange Land: Wang Chong Lor and Students. 7. The Old Dutchman Polka: Karl Hartwich. 8. Mexican Roots, American Branches: La Otra Mitad. 9. Davenport Jazz: Manny and Dude Lopez -- Pt. 2. The Midwestern Crossroads. 1. Prairie Home Bohemian: Greg Brown. 2. Riverboats, Fiddles, and Banjos: John Hartford. 3. Good Old Family Music: Western Illinois Bluegrass Days. 4. Poetry and the Drum: Eugene Redmond and Sylvester "Sunshine" Lee. 5. Rhythm and Blues Man: Oliver Sain. 6. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: Fontella Bass. 7. Loud Music in a Small Town: The Bottle Rockets. 8. Old French New Year: The Ste. Genevieve Guignolee Singers.
- 9. That Old-Time Religion: The Boundless Love Quartet -- Pt. 3. The Southern Fusion. 1. We Wanna Boogie: Sonny Burgess. 2. Beale Street Talking: Rufus Thomas. 3. Memphis Soul Stew: The Memphis Horns, with Ann Peebles. 4. Down Home in Mississippi: Big Jack Johnson. 5. A Blues King Comes Home: Little Milton. 6. United in Praise: The Mississippi Mass Choir -- Pt. 4. Louisiana, where Music is King. 1. North Louisiana Twang: Kenny Bill Stinson. 2. The Singing Governor Turns Ninety-Eight: Jimmie Davis and Friends. 3. The Cajun Hank Williams: D. L. Menard. 4. Zydeco Cowboy: Geno Delafose. 5. The Strects of the French Quarter: David and Roselyn. 6. The Soul Queen of New Orleans: Irma Thomas. 7. New Orleans Keyboard Wizard: Henry Butler. 8. Hip-Hop Brass Band Revolutionaries: Soul Rebels. 9. Spaniards in the Swamps: Irvan and Allen Perez.
- ISBN
- 0312200595
- LCCN
- 98045508
- OCLC
- ocm39913988
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries