Riding with Strangers: A Hitchhiker's Journey
 On the road ... again: Nobody has yet taken up Elijah Wald on his Phileas Fogg-shrouded wager: He bets the cost of a cross-country bus ticket that he can hitchhike across America faster than a bus can drive it. That means Wald, a wandering minstrel who's [... more]
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American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth ...
Designed as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the past hundred years -- the period in which that music came into its own and achieved unprecedented popularity. Beginning [... more]
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Narcocorrido: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, ...
Grammy-nominated writer Elijah Wald spent 1999 immersed in the culture that surrounds the music of Narcocorridos -- Mexican ballads about the daring deeds of cross-border drug traffickers.In this travel adventure story, Wald traces this musical genre [... more]
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of ...
The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black [... more]
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The Complete Recordings
The beginning of the blues.: I recognize these recordings as the beginning of the blues. They are simple and exciting. For the serious, a "must have": This collection is NOT for dilettantes. This is not something you play in the background as [... more]
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The Complete Recordings
The beginning of the blues.: I recognize these recordings as the beginning of the blues. They are simple and exciting. For the serious, a "must have": This collection is NOT for dilettantes. This is not something you play in the background as [... more]
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Sunday Street
Van Ronk's masterpiece: One of the heroes of the New York and American folk revival, Dave Van Ronk is a supremely gifted singer and guitarist who was there to bridge the first revival (Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly) and the second (the one that produced Bob [... more]
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Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American ...
Book Description: Suddenly Robert Johnson is everywhere. Though the Mississippi bluesman died young and recorded only twenty-nine songs, the legacy, legend, and lore surrounding him continue to grow. Focusing on these developments, Patricia R. Schroeder' [... more]
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Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music
Author: Elijah Wald Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 780.922 Edition: 1 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 328 Publication Date: 2006-11-09 [... more]
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Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is ...
The work of a good scientist, an abysmal social commentator: Hubbard does deserve credit for throwing some skepticism on "the next big thing" in science, genetic technology. Unfortunately, she combines her skeptical analysis with her hopelessly [... more]
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of ...
Wonderful!: This was a great book and a must-have in any music biography library. It's more than a music biography though. Many of us in this day and age have a mythical idea of who Robert Johnson was, we've all heard the story of how he learned to play [... more]
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of ...
Wonderful!: This was a great book and a must-have in any music biography library. It's more than a music biography though. Many of us in this day and age have a mythical idea of who Robert Johnson was, we've all heard the story of how he learned to play [... more]
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