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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786122703321

Autore

Greenberg Alan

Titolo

Love in vain [[electronic resource] ] : a vision of Robert Johnson / / Alan Greenberg ; foreword by Martin Scorsese ; introduction by Stanley Crouch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8166-8217-8

Edizione

[1st University of Minnesota Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ScorseseMartin

CrouchStanley

Disciplina

791.43/6578

Soggetti

African American musicians

Blues musicians

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in 1983 by Doubleday.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; LOVE IN VAIN; Photographs; Notes; Bibliography; Permissions; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan Greenberg's remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert Johnson's life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on Johnso