American roots music

Author

Robert Santelli

Call Number

• 780.97 A512 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : H.N. Abrams, 2001.

Physical Description

232 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Notes

"A Ginger Group/Rolling Stone Press Book."

"Based on the PBS series and a collaboration between: the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Experience Music Project, and Ginger Group Productions, with major support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Public Broadcasting Service, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,AT&T."--Jacket flap.

Contents

• Early country : treasures untold / Charles Wolfe
• Birth of the blues / David Evans
• Flowering of the folk revival / Alan Jabbour
• Hallelujah : the sacred music of Black America / Claudia Perry
• Cajun and zydeco : the musics of French southwest Louisiana / Ann Savoy
• Música tejana : the music of Mexican Texas / Manuel Pena
• Native American music and the powwow tradition / William K. Powers
• Keeping it country : tradition and change, 1940 to the present / Bill Malone
• Mojo working : the blues explosion / Robert Santelli
• Roots music begats rock & roll / David McGee.