American roots music /

Photographs and text chronicle the history of American roots music, encompassing blues, country and western, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, Native American, and other American genres of folk music.

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Contributors: Santelli, Robert., George-Warren, Holly., Brown, Jim, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : H.N. Abrams, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Early country : treasures untold / by Charles Wolfe
  • The birth of the blues / by David Evans
  • The flowering of the folk revival / by Alan Jabbour
  • Hallelujah : the sacred music of Black America / by Claudia Perry
  • Cajun and zydeco : the musics of French southwest Louisiana / by Ann Allen Savoy
  • Música tejana : the music of Mexican Texas / by Manuel Peña
  • Native American music of the twentieth century / by William K. Powers
  • Native tongue : contemporary native music / by J. Poet
  • Keeping it country : tradition and change, 1940 to the present / by Bill C. Malone
  • Mojo working : the blues explosion / by Robert Santelli
  • Roots music begats rock & roll / by David McGee.