The Legacy of the Blues: Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen

by Samuel Charters

Book Overview

Blues is a language--one which has evolved its own rules and which is the sole property of a culture always forced to the periphery of white society. As such it is a political language. Whether it is passed as a legacy from African village to Mississippi farm, or from farm to Chicago ghetto, or from ghetto to Paris cafe, it is part of a larger oral heritage that is an expression of black America. Makeshift instruments, runaway slaves, railroads, prisons,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306800543
• ISBN13: 9780306800542
• Release Date: March 1977
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Book of the century!

This book is a have to read.It inspires like no other and captures the mind intensly. If you like blues then you must get this book, right away. My faverite chapture is the one about snooks, a blues man. He is blind but can play the gatar like no other. This is Hickory...... saying peace out brothers.