America's Gift: The untold story of how blues evolved

by Paul Merry

Why untold? Most blues histories, outstanding as they are, take us back to the late 1890s but rarely further. As South Carolina's Cradle of Jazz Project wrote: "From the end of the dances at Congo Square (c. 1820) to the beginning of jazz, there is a black hole ... when the old West African music slowly turned into the new music of America." America's Gift was written expressly to illuminate that 'black hole', to discover exactly what happened to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151697235X
• ISBN13: 9781516972357
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"