Big Road Blues: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306803000)

This book analyzes the process of composition, learning and performance of the Southern folk blues of black America. Never before has this musical form been examined so scrupulously. Evans traces the impact of commercialism, especially the phonograph record, on blues history, as well as the various local traditions that produce a given blues tune and text. The author has done extensive field work in Mississippi and provides here a structure for understanding not only the blues but almost any other oral literature from other cultures.

Author: David Evans
ISBN-10: 0306803003
ISBN-13: 9780306803000
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 08/22/1987
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.00w x 0.98d