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Before Elvis
The African American Musicians Who Made the King
Inbunden, 2025
311 kr
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A thought-provoking exploration of the Black musicians who inspired Elvis Presley's music, primarily through the lens of four overlooked artists: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and Calvin Newborn
Brother Robert
Growing Up with Robert Johnson
Av Annye C. Anderson, Preston Lauterbach
Inbunden, 2020
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
292 kr
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Though only 27-years-young and relatively unknown at the time of his tragic death in 1938, Robert Johnson's enduring recordings have solidified his status as a progenitor of the Delta Blues style. And yet, while his music has retained the steadfast devotion of modern listeners, much remains unknown …
Spirit of the Century
Our Own Story
Av Preston Lauterbach, The Blind Boys of Alabama
Inbunden, 2024
292 kr
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An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues, drawing from the group's private archiveThe Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and …
Harlem Underworld
A Dope Empire, the Rise of R&B, and the Birth of Rap
Inbunden, 2027
294 kr
Kommande
An in-depth look at the last generation of Black music before the rise of hip-hop, with special attention to how the dying world influenced the new one The seventies deserve a long love letter. There you can see the beginnings of where we are today. But it was also the end of something beautiful …
Chitlin' Circuit
And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll
Häftad, 2012
223 kr
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For generations, "chitlin' circuit" has meant second tier—brash performers in raucous nightspots far from the big-city limelight. Now, music journalist Preston Lauterbach combines terrific firsthand reportage with deep historical research to offer a groundbreaking account of the birth of rock 'n' …
Beale Street Dynasty
Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
Häftad, 2016
187 kr
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Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred—a street that inspired folk legends and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this story through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave …
Bluff City
The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers
Häftad, 2020
218 kr
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Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and ’60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till’s uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew’s killer; scores of African-American protestors carrying a …
Timekeeper
My Life In Rhythm
Av Preston Lauterbach, Howard Grimes
E-bok, 2021
200 kr
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Timekeeper is the first-person inside account of the birth and expansion of the Memphis sound, told by Howard Grimes, the celebrated house drummer from the early days at both iconic Memphis soul studios, Stax Records and Hi Records. Author Howard Grimes backed Rufus and Carla Thomas, William Bell, …
Beale Street Dynasty
Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
Inbunden, 2015
261 kr
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Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred—a street that inspired folk legends and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this story through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave …
