{"product_id":"deep-blues-a-musical-and-cultural-history-of-the-mississippi-delta-paperback","title":"Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural beginnings, to the steamy bars of Chicago's South Side, to international popularity, recognition, and imitation. Palmer tells the story of the blues through the lives of its greatest practitioners: Robert Johnson, who sang of being pursued by the hounds of hell; Muddy Waters, who electrified Delta blues and gave the music its rock beat; Robert Lockwood and Sonny Boy Williamson, who launched the King Biscuit Time radio show and brought blues to the airwaves; and John Lee Hooker, Ike Turner, B. B. King, and many others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A lucid . . . entrancing study\" -- Greil Marcus \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Palmer has a powerful understanding of the music and an intense involvement in the culture.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e was the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's first full-time rock writer and chief pop critic (1976-1988) and has been a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e since the early seventies. He has taught courses in American music at Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, Bowdoin, the University of Mississippi, and Brooklyn College, where he was the first senior research fellow of the Institute for Studies in American Music to teach and write a musicological monograph on rock and roll. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDeep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlues\u003c\/i\u003e and other books, and served as writer and music director for two award-winning documentary films, \u003ci\u003eThe World According to John Coltrane\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeep Blues\u003c\/i\u003e. Since producing the latter film's soundtrack CD for Atlantic Records, he has produced a number of raw juke-joint blues CDs for the Fat Possum label, winning a number of polls and awards. He acted as the chief advisor to the ten-part WGBH\/BBC series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.75 x 5.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 1982\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45242619134054,"sku":"9780140062236","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UURzTFJZUkh3aERjS0YzdExiNWZrQT09.webp?v=1773561033","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/deep-blues-a-musical-and-cultural-history-of-the-mississippi-delta-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}