Overview :"A signal event in the history of the music." - Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929-2015) cons... Read More
Overview :From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expr... Read More
Overview :This book is a deeply personal portrait of the people and music of today's New Orleans--a city that has been hard hit by Katrina, but is man... Read More
Overview :"I went to Africa to find the roots of the blues." So Samuel Charters begins the extraordinary story of his research. But what began as a st... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of N... Read More
Overview :(Music Sales America). The story and the music of the men who made the blues, including Furry Lewis, Willie McTell, Blind Blake, Blind Boy F... Read More
Overview :In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters--one of the pioneering collectors of African American music--writes of a trip to West Africa where he... Read More
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... Read More
Overview :This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, ... Read More
Overview :From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expr... Read More
Overview :"A signal event in the history of the music." -- Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929-2015) con... Read More
Overview :Samuel Charters belongs to a small group of writers about music whose work has transformed their -subject--without his discoveries, insights... Read More