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Blue rhythms

six lives in rhythm and blues

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An edition of Blue rhythms (1996)

Blue rhythms

six lives in rhythm and blues

1st Da Capo Press ed.

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The high times and hard times of six of the greatest living rhythm and blues artists unfold in the pages of Blue Rhythms. In this vivid slice of oral history.

Chip Deffaa profiles Ruth Brown, the most popular female black singer of the early 1950s; LaVern Baker, who succeeded Brown; Little Jimmy Scott, who Madonna calls the only singer who ever really made her cry; Charles Brown, master of the "club blues" style he popularized; Floyd Dixon, a more rambunctious fellow traveler; and Jimmy Witherspoon, whose blend of earthiness and urbanity helped earn him as big an r&b hit as was ever recorded.

Deffaa deals not only with the performers' music but also with their struggles against racism and financial exploitation. The work is illustrated with more than forty photographs.

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Da Capo Press
Language
English
Pages
301

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Subjects
Biography, History and criticism, Rhythm and blues music, Singers, United States, Blues musicians, Musicians, biography, Singers, united states, Singers, biography
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United States

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Blue rhythms: six lives in rhythm and blues
2000, Da Capo Press
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Blue rhythms: six lives in rhythm and blues
1996, University of Illinois Press
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Table of Contents

Ruth Brown
Little Jimmy Scott
Charles Brown
Floyd Dixon
LaVern Baker
Jimmy Witherspoon.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p.[269]-274) and index.
Originally published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996, in the series, Music in American life.

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[Boulder, Co.?]
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Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
781.643/092/273, B
Library of Congress
ML400 .D4 2000, ML400.D4 2000

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xvi, 301 p. :
Number of pages
301

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OL45484M
ISBN 10
0306809192
LCCN
99042569
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1361143
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3419829

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