Jeff Todd Titon
Early Downhome Blues
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- Primary Artist
- Jeff Todd Titon
- Description
- First Edition 1977 Hardcover Edition in nice solid VG+ condition. Dust Jacket is VG. Does not include the flexidisc. Focus on blues, with occasional reference and images of country music. Jeff Todd Titon’s Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis ranks as one of the most important analytical studies of the blues, examining the music in an incisive and interconnected web of contexts, including social, lyrical, musicological, and commercial. Titon’s grasp of the blues is extensive, not only as an academic and professor with a Ph.D. in American studies but also as a record collector, writer, and musician who played with or interviewed blues and gospel performers. “Downhome blues,” in his definition, “refers not a place but to a spirit, a sense of place, evoked in singer and listener by a style of music” played in cities as well as in the country. First published by the University of Illinois Press in 1977. This book weighs just over 2 pounds and ships at the equivalent rate of 4 records.
- Genres
- Blues, Pre-War Country, Hillbilly & Bluegrass
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