Samstag, 21. Februar 2015

Gregory A Freeman - Lay This Body Down - The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves


Dan T. Carter - Scottsboro - A Tragedy of the American South


Wyn Craig Wade - The Fiery Cross - The Ku Klux Klan in America


Emory M. Thomas - Robert E. Lee - A Biography


William J. Cooper Jr. - Jefferson Davis, American


Melton A. McLaurin - Celia, A Slave


Joyce King - Hate Crime - The Story of a Dragging in Jasper,Texas


Laura Wexler - Fire In A Canebrake - The Last Mass Lynching in America


Timothy B. Tyson - Blood Done Sign My Name


Dan T. Carter - The Politics of Rage - George Wallace The Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics


E. Culpepper Clark - The Schoolhouse Door - Segregations Last Stand at the University of Alabama


Steve Oney - And The Dead Shall Rise - The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank


Philip Dray - At The Hands Of Persons Unknown - The Lynching of Black America


David A. Neiwert - IN GODS COUNTRY - The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest


Bruce Watson - Freedom Summer


Sonntag, 8. Februar 2015

Jay Warner - JUST WALKING THE RAIN - The true story of a convict quintet, a liberal governor and how they changed southern history through Rhythm & Blues


Phil Ramone - MAKING RECORDS - The Scenes behind the music


Mark Kurlansky - READY FOR A BRAND NEW BEAT - How "Dancing in the Street" became the Anthem for a Changing America


Donald M. Marquis - In Search Of Buddy Bolden


Karl Hagstrom Miller - Segregating Sound - Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow


John T. Davis - The Flatlanders - Now It`s Now Again


Jennifer Warner - Queen of the Blues


Danny Smith & Bill Hampson - The Blood and The Blues


Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2014

William Bradford Huie - Three Lives For Mississippi


Steve Roden - I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces - Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955

http://www.dust-digital.com/wind/


Description: 184 page hardback book with 2 CDs, 150 sepia photographs reproduced in full-color, the CDs feature 51 vintage recordings from 1925-1955. 
Publication Date: August 2, 2011 
Compiled by Steve Roden, … i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces brings together a collection of early photographs related to music, a group of 78rpm recordings, and short excerpts from various literary sources that are contemporary with the sound and images. It is a somewhat intuitive gathering, culled from artist Steve Roden’s collection of thousands of vernacular photographs related to music, sound, and listening. The subjects range from the PT Barnum-esque Professor McRea – “Ontario’s Musical Wonder” (pictured with his complex sculptural one man band contraption) – to anonymous African-American guitar players and images of early phonographs. The images range from professional portraits to ethereal, accidental, double exposures – and include a range of photographic print processes, such as tintypes, ambrotypes, cdvs, cabinet cards, real photo postcards, albumen prints, and turn-of-the-century snapshots.
The two CDs display a variety of recordings, including one-off amateur recordings, regular commercial releases, and early sound effects records. there is no narrative structure to the book, but the collision of literary quotes (Hamsun, Lagarkvist, Wordsworth, Nabokov, etc.). Recordings and images conspire towards a consistent mood that is anchored by the book’s title, which binds such disparate things as an early recording of an American cowboy ballad, a poem by a Swedish Nobel laureate, a recording of crickets created artificially, and an image of an itinerant anonymous woman sitting in a field, playing a guitar. The book also contains an essay by Roden.
Disc One
1. Wind – HMV Weather Effects c.1935
2. John Henry – John Jacob Niles 1940
3. Untitled – Anonymous (Société Anonyme)
4. Then We’ll Need That True Religion – Reverend Edward Clayborn 1927
5. In the Baggage Coach Ahead – Ernest Thompson 1924
6. Blue Blazes Blues – Emery Glen 1927
7. Walking on Ice – Gennett Sound Effects c. 1936
8. Kind Lovin’ Blues – Clara Smith 1923
9. If You Hadn’t Gone Away – Nick Lucas 1925
10. Beautiful Mansions of Gold – Anonymous (Knight Home-recording Disc)
11. I Seen My Pretty Papa Standing on a Hill – Eva Parker 1926
12. The Rosary – Pale K. Lua 1914
13. Mocking Bird – Gennett Sound Effects c.1936
14. Froggie Went A-Courting – Bradley Kincaid 1928
15. Damfino Stump – Sylvester Weaver 1927
16. Montana Call – Seger Ellis 1931
17. When They Ring the Golden Bells – Alfred G. Karnes 1928
18. Mandolin – Anonymous (Recordio Home-recording Disc)
19. The Stranger – Anonymous (Recordio Home-recording Disc)
20. Brother Noah Built an Ark – Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor’s Old Limber Quartet 1924
21. A Little Love a Little Kiss – Ed Lang 1927
22. Canadian Geese – Standard Radio Sound Effect c.1948
23. Reaching for the Moon – Roy Smeck’s Trio 1931
24. I Want to Go Home – Roland Hayes 1941
25. The Old Grey Horse – Obed Pickard of Station WSM Nashville Tennessee 1927
Disc Two
1. Walking in Snow and Thin Underbrush – Gennett Sound Effects c.1936
2. Rovin’ Gambler – Kelly Harrell 1926
3. I’ve Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind – Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver 1923
4. Pinin’ Hawaii for You – Frank Ferera’s Hawaiians 1928
5. Going My Way – Gabriel Brown and his Guitar 1943
6. Rainfall and Thunder (Thunder Not from Life) – Gennett Sound Effects c.1936
7. It Don’t Do Nothing but Rain – Lew Childre 1936
8. Graveyard Love – Bertha Idaho 1928
9. Pretty Polly – Frank Luther 1940
10. Canary Birds: Several Hundred – Gennett Sound Effects c. 1936
11. Xango – Roland Hayes 1941
12. The Girl I Left Behind Me – Dick Reinhert 1929
13. Yes I Know – Rev. Calbert & Sister Billie Holstein 1928
14. Bib-a-lollie-boo – Chubby Parker 1927
15. Winnebago Love Song (Duet) – Thurlow Lieurance & Clement Barone 1929
16. My Good for Nuthin’ Man – Clara Smith 1925
17. Stack O’Lee Blues – Sol Hoopii’s Novelty Trio 1926
18. (I’m Cryin’ ‘cause I Know I’m) Losing You – Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) 1927
19. William & Mary – Marc Williams 1934
20. Way Down Home – Anonymous (Recordio Home-recording Disc)
21. Night Noises – Gennett Sound Effects c.1936
22. Ya Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog Aroun’ – Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett 1926
23. Cripple Creek and Sourwood Mountain – Stovepipe No. 1 (Sam Jones) 1925
24. Cowboy’s Prayer – Goebel Reeves 1934
25. Precious Memorys (sic) – Bill Kearney & Earl Bush (S.O.S. Recording and Radio Service Disc, Honolulu, November 3, 1955 “to Dotty from Bill Kearney”)
26. O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie – Carl T. Sprague 1926


Mary Ellison - Extensions of the Blues


Wolfgang Schorlau - DOWN AT THERESA`S - The Photographs of Marc Pokempner


Luc Sante - TAKE ME TO THE WATER - Imersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950

http://www.dust-digital.com/water/



Description: One CD, 96-page hardcover book
Publication Date: May 26, 2009
Recognition: Grammy® Awards 2009 Nominated for Best Historical Album
Photographs Compiled by Jim Linderman, Music Complied by Lance Ledbetter

For most of his life, collector Jim Linderman has searched high and low for authentic things—unique and special objects that define the artistic culture of the American experience. From folk art to popular culture, from pulp fiction to Delta Blues— Jim is a walking authority on so many things American they are too numerous to mention. One thing is certain— his collecting interests are for things that have fallen through the cracks, those things lost and forgotten—the box of material under the table at the flea market booth. If it wasn’t for dedicated collectors like Jim Linderman— so many important objects about our culture would have surely been lost to time and indifference.
Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950 is Linderman’s first book. The 96-page hardcover book (8.75 x 6 inches) has 75 sepia photograph reproductions from 1890-1950 and is accompanied by a CD of rare gospel and folk recordings from original 78-RPM records (1924-1940). It features recordings of artists like Washington Phillips, Carter Family, Tennessee Mountaineers, and lesser known and rare groups like the Belmont Silvertone Jubilee Singers, a vocal quartet in 1939. Included as well are rare vocal recordings of sermons and preaching which highlight the fervor leading up to the moment of cleansing one’s soul in immersion baptism.” — John Foster, Accidental Mysteries


Lawrence Clayton and Joe W. Specht - The Roots of Texas Music

http://www.tamupress.com/product/Roots-of-Texas-Music,1489.aspx

Ken Light - DELTA TIME

http://www.kenlight.com/publications/deltatime/

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