🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£45.95
Out of Stock

An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians

By (author) Benjamin Franklin V
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, South Carolina, United States
Published: 30th Aug 2016
Dimensions: w 178mm h 254mm d 20mm
Weight: 860g
ISBN-10: 1611176212
ISBN-13: 9781611176216
Barcode No: 9781611176216
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
In An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians, Benjamin Franklin V documents the careers of South Carolina jazz and blues musicians from the nineteenth century to the present. The musicians range from the renowned (James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie), to the notable (Freddie Green, Josh White), to the largely forgotten (Fud Livingston, Josie Miles),to the obscure (Lottie Frost Hightower, Horace ""Spoons"" Williams), to the unknown (Vince Arnold, Johnny Wilson). Though the term ""jazz"" is commonly understood, if difficult to define, ""blues"" has evolved over time to include rhythm and blues, doo-wop, and soul music. Performers in these genres are represented, as are members of the Jenkins Orphanage bands of Charleston. The volume also treats nineteenth-century musicians who performed what might be called proto-jazz or proto-blues in string bands, medicine shows, vaudeville, and the like. Organized alphabetically, from Johnny Acey to Webster Young, the book's entries include basic biographical information, South Carolina residences, career details, compositions, recordings as leaders and as band members, films, awards, Web sites, and lists of resources for additional reading. Franklin has ensured biographical accuracy to the greatest degree possible by consulting such sources as the census, military registers, passport applications, and other public documents including, when law permitted, death certificates. Information in these records permitted him to dispel myths and correct misinformation that have surrounded South Carolina's musical history for generations.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New
Out of Stock

What Reviewers Are Saying

Be the first to review this item. Submit your review now