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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792347503321

Autore

Gussow Adam

Titolo

Mister Satan's apprentice [[electronic resource] ] : a blues memoir / / Adam Gussow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8166-7056-0

Edizione

[1st University of Minnesota Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Disciplina

781.643092

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Soggetti

Blues musicians - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Prologue: 1969; PART ONE: NEW LIFE; 1. If That Don't Bring Her Back; 2. Everybody in Harlem Knows Satan; 3. Young Man with a Horn; 4. No Bad Fella; 5. White Boys; PART TWO: PRETTY GIRLS; 6. Roaming; 7. Downhearted Blues; 8. ""La Belle Dame sans Merci""; 9. Sweet Harlem Summer; PART THREE: BIG RIVER; 10. Labor Day; 11. Going Someplace; 12. Catfish on the Raft; 13. A Gentle, Fumbling Thing; 14. Ball of Fire; 15. Back Down Yonder; PART FOUR: HOT TOWN; 16. Do the Right Thing; 17. Billed Out; 18. Angel Sound; PART FIVE: HARLEM BLUES; 19. The Same Old Mess

20. What We've Been Trying For, All These YearsEpilogue: April 1998; Thanks; Permissions Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Adam Gussow is a writer and blues harmonica player. He is associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.