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Big Road Blues: Tradition And Creativity In The Folk Blues Paperback – August 22, 1987

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4.7 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
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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.
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    August 22, 1987
  4. Dimensions
    9.04 x 6 x 0.98 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0306803003
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0306803000
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo; First Edition (August 22, 1987)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 396 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0306803003
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0306803000
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.04 x 6 x 0.98 inches
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  • Richard C. Beall
    5.0 out of 5 stars Blues in Context
    Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024
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    This book helps you understand how the original country blues were created, and to recognize the vestiges as they exist today. If you are a blues player, it might help you develop in the same way the old guys did in their culture ... except you are not surrounded by their culture, you have to recreate your own! This is a scholarly work with more detail than most people want, but if you are adept you can dip your ladle and get what you want. It's there!
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  • Prof. Andrews
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2021
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    Like the book Delta Blues, this is a good history for those who have a strong (not passing) interest. Only complaint is that the text in this paperback is printed in an extremely small font. No trouble here, but others may have a bit of difficulty.
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  • Arthur
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great overview but could use more about Babe Stovall
    Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2014
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    Mississippi Delta blues at its finest by one of its most authentic practitioners. He used to play for tips in Jackson Square in New Orleans and drank MD 20/20, a cheap red wine he nicknamed Mad Dog. This is amazing stuff and Babe Stovall items you find are highly collectible and valuable.
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  • Meredith L Kelling
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent and thorough study.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014
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    So well written and well researched. A must read for anyone interested in the blues and its origins. Evans is a national treasure.
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  • Paul L.
    2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2017
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    Very hard to read.
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  • grasshopper4
    5.0 out of 5 stars Blues within Local Tradition
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2006
    Although first published in 1982, this book may be more important to today's readers as the passage of time has resulted in a shifting importance to this book's content. Along with serving as an insightful contribution to folkloristic analysis, the book has now become a major resource for understanding the social history of the blues. In this respect, Evans' analysis provides a good way to understand and appreciate both historical and contemporary blues music. Evans' interviews with blues musicians from the 1960s and 70s, in particular, provide irreplaceable resources for learning about well-recognized blues players like Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and Tommy Johnson as well as lesser-known, but still important, figures such as Mager Johnson, Willis Taylor, and Mott Willis, and Fiddlin' Joe Martin. The focus on Drew, MS gives this study a good example of a community with a thriving local tradition, where many of the previously-mentioned musicians played, and it provides an especially strong way to understand the development of the blues tradition in the Delta. Evans' careful transcriptions of a variety of blues songs and sharp analysis of tunes and lyrics further contribute to an understanding of the music within the context of a once-vibrant local blues tradition. The book culminates in a extensive analysis of the development and diffusion of the tune "Big Road Blues." This chapter includes thorough transcriptions that show how the song has been played by a number of musicians. It is especially interesting and worthwhile to listen to some of the recordings that Evans mentions (and that he, himself, even produced) while reading about the players who created the various performances of the tunes.
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  • Monty Rainey
    5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars, ... I think.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2006
    In the interest of fairness, I'm giving this book five stars, though I admit that I am not totally qualified to rate this book in its' totality. I say that because, I have no knowledge of reading music and much of BIG ROAD BLUES by David Evans is designed to teach blues music as well as entertain readers.

    The book was certainly entertaining giving rich and colorful history of blues pioneers and the Mississippi delta small towns where blues found its roots. As for the music part of it, it was way over my non-music playing head, but I am certain guitar artists and aspiring blues musicians would benefit greatly from its lessons.

    Even without a music background, simply as a lover of blues music, I found this book very readable and informative. The book is laden with brief biographies of obscure blues musicians largely forgotten by all by the most devout blues fans, as well as pictures that lend character to the book. This is a book I believe any blues lover would enjoy reading.
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