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Beyond the Crossroads

The Devil and the Blues Tradition

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Buch | Hardcover
416 Seiten
2017
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3365-7 (ISBN)
119,95 inkl. MwSt
In this groundbreaking study, Adam Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence in the blues. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure.
The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake (""the devil's music""), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings.

In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as ""the crossroads"" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.

Adam Gussow is associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi and author of Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Directions in Southern Studies
Zusatzinfo 6 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table
Verlagsort Chapel Hill
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4696-3365-5 / 1469633655
ISBN-13 978-1-4696-3365-7 / 9781469633657
Zustand Neuware
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