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The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music - Softcover

Sallis, James

 
9780803292253: The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803292252 ISBN 13: 9780803292253
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on the backs of black slaves." The great classical blues period of the 1920s had rich antecedents going back further than plantation orchestras featuring fiddles and bajos. The introduction of the guitar, at first not a solo instrument, really demonstrated rhythmic ingenuity.

Sallis shows how folk music and a cross-fertilization of traditions and techniques resulted in blues, ragtime, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and country-western. He writes eloquently about fourteen transitional or pivotal performers: the Mississippi Sheiks; Lonnie Johnson, the first virtuoso blues guitarist; Eddie Lang, the first great jazz guitarist; Roy Smeck, the foremost popularizer of guitar playing; Charlie Christian, the founder of modern jazz guitar; Riley Puckett, the first great country-music guitarist; T-Bone Walker, "daddy of the blues"; George Barnes; Hank Garland; Wes Montgomery, the jazz innovator; Mike Bloomfield, the heavy-rock guitarist; Ry Cooder; Ralph Towner; and Lenny Breau.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Sallis, who grew up in Helena, Arkansas, a town with a history of blues activity, is a free-lance writer. The Long-Legged Fly was named one of the best mysteries of the year by the Los Angeles Times. Moth is his second novel to feature the black New Orleans detective Lew Griffin.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803292252
ISBN 13 
9780803292253
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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