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The Land Where the Blues Began

by Alan Lomax
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The Land Where the Blues Began
The Land Where the Blues Began

Journey through Delta's musical roots and soul.

If you've ever tapped your foot to a rhythm that seems to echo the human heart, "The Land Where the Blues Began" might resonate with you. Lomax doesn't just narrate; he transports you to smoky juke joints and cotton fields, amidst the very birth pangs of the blues. His passion is contagious, and his storytelling, so authentic, you might feel the Mississippi sun on your skin. It's a deep dive into American culture that feels as intimate as listening to a record in the dark.

  • National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (1993)
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The Land Where the Blues Began

by Alan Lomax
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ISBN: 9781565847392
Authors: Alan Lomax
Publisher: The New Press
Date of Publication: 2002-11-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Music, Biographies & Memoirs, History, Art
Related Topics: Biography, American History, History, Music, Anthropology, Art
Goodreads rating: 4.31
(rated by 850 readers)

Description

A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and ‘40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta’s music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him. The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax’s “stingingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey” (Kirkus Reviews) through America’s musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax’s “discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread” (The New York Times Book Review). The Land Where the Blues Began captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history. Winner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.
 

Journey through Delta's musical roots and soul.

If you've ever tapped your foot to a rhythm that seems to echo the human heart, "The Land Where the Blues Began" might resonate with you. Lomax doesn't just narrate; he transports you to smoky juke joints and cotton fields, amidst the very birth pangs of the blues. His passion is contagious, and his storytelling, so authentic, you might feel the Mississippi sun on your skin. It's a deep dive into American culture that feels as intimate as listening to a record in the dark.

  • National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (1993)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.