[Download pdf] Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records
·•●- Paul Oliver ·•●-
| #2086440 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1984-10-26 | 1984-09-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.79 x5.98l,1.14 | File Name: 0521269423 | 339 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Well worth your time|By Wm.|Both well written and well researched, this book posits that commercial recordings - specifically "race" records made primarily from the late 1920s to the early 1930s - were a vital and important means of communicating folk traditions. Mr. Oliver's looks at both secular and religious recordings (particularly sermons), and provides insightful and de||"...fills an interesting and important gap in American musical history." Cashbox
In this innovatory book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions presented on Race records. When blues first reached a large audience it was through the 'Race records' issued specifically for black purchasers in the 1920s. Blues South have been extensively discussed by many writers. Paul Oliver shows that this emphasis has drawn attention away from the other important vocal traditions also available on Race re...
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