View in EDS PDF Full Text ePub Full Text

Preachin' the Blues : The Life and Times of Son House

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Title: Preachin' the Blues : The Life and Times of Son House
Description: In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin'the Blues, the biography of American blues signer and guitarist Eddie James'Son'House, Jr. (1902 - 1988). House pioneered an innovative style, incorporating strong repetitive rhythms with elements of southern gospel and spiritual vocals. A seminal figure in the history of the Delta blues, he was an important, direct influence on such figures as Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. The landscape of Son House's life and the vicissitudes he endured make for an absorbing narrative, threaded through with a tension between House's religious beliefs and his spells of commitment to a lifestyle that implicitly rejected it. Drinking, womanizing, and singing the blues caused this tension that is palpable in his music, and becomes explicit in one of his finest performances,'Preachin'the Blues.'Large parts of House's life are obscure, not least because his own accounts of them were inconsistent. Author Daniel Beaumont offers a chronology/topography of House's youth, taking into account evidence that conflicts sharply with the well-worn fable, and he illuminates the obscurity of House's two decades in Rochester, NY between his departure from Mississippi in the 1940s and his'rediscovery'by members of the Folk Revival Movement in 1964. Beaumont gives a detailed and perceptive account of House's primary musical legacy: his recordings for Paramount in 1930 and for the Library of Congress in 1941-42. In the course of his research Beaumont has unearthed not only connections among the many scattered facts and fictions but new information about a rumoured murder in Mississippi, and a charge of manslaughter on Long Island - incidents which bring tragic light upon House's lifelong struggles and self-imposed disappearance, and give trenchant meaning to the moving music of this early blues legend.
Authors: Daniel Beaumont
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Blues musicians--United States--Biography
Categories: MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, MUSIC / History & Criticism
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
FullText Links:
  – Type: ebook-pdf
  – Type: ebook-epub
Text:
  Availability: 0
Header DbId: nlebk
DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
An: 377970
RelevancyScore: 1038
AccessLevel: 6
PubType: eBook
PubTypeId: ebook
PreciseRelevancyScore: 1037.72192382813
IllustrationInfo
ImageInfo – Size: thumb
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$377970$PDF&s=r
– Size: medium
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$377970$PDF&s=d
Items – Name: Title
  Label: Title
  Group: Ti
  Data: Preachin' the Blues : The Life and Times of Son House
– Name: Abstract
  Label: Description
  Group: Ab
  Data: In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin'the Blues, the biography of American blues signer and guitarist Eddie James'Son'House, Jr. (1902 - 1988). House pioneered an innovative style, incorporating strong repetitive rhythms with elements of southern gospel and spiritual vocals. A seminal figure in the history of the Delta blues, he was an important, direct influence on such figures as Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. The landscape of Son House's life and the vicissitudes he endured make for an absorbing narrative, threaded through with a tension between House's religious beliefs and his spells of commitment to a lifestyle that implicitly rejected it. Drinking, womanizing, and singing the blues caused this tension that is palpable in his music, and becomes explicit in one of his finest performances,'Preachin'the Blues.'Large parts of House's life are obscure, not least because his own accounts of them were inconsistent. Author Daniel Beaumont offers a chronology/topography of House's youth, taking into account evidence that conflicts sharply with the well-worn fable, and he illuminates the obscurity of House's two decades in Rochester, NY between his departure from Mississippi in the 1940s and his'rediscovery'by members of the Folk Revival Movement in 1964. Beaumont gives a detailed and perceptive account of House's primary musical legacy: his recordings for Paramount in 1930 and for the Library of Congress in 1941-42. In the course of his research Beaumont has unearthed not only connections among the many scattered facts and fictions but new information about a rumoured murder in Mississippi, and a charge of manslaughter on Long Island - incidents which bring tragic light upon House's lifelong struggles and self-imposed disappearance, and give trenchant meaning to the moving music of this early blues legend.
– Name: Author
  Label: Authors
  Group: Au
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Daniel+Beaumont%22">Daniel Beaumont</searchLink>
– Name: TypePub
  Label: Resource Type
  Group: TypPub
  Data: eBook.
– Name: Subject
  Label: Subjects
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Blues+musicians--United+States--Biography%22">Blues musicians--United States--Biography</searchLink>
– Name: SubjectBISAC
  Label: Categories
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22MUSIC+%2F+Genres+%26+Styles+%2F+Blues%22">MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22BIOGRAPHY+%26+AUTOBIOGRAPHY+%2F+Cultural+%26+Regional%22">BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22MUSIC+%2F+History+%26+Criticism%22">MUSIC / History & Criticism</searchLink>
PLink https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=377970
RecordInfo BibRecord:
  BibEntity:
    Classifications:
      – Code: 782.42164
        Scheme: ddc
        Type: prePub
    Languages:
      – Code: eng
        Text: English
    Subjects:
      – SubjectFull: Blues musicians--United States--Biography
        Type: general
    Titles:
      – TitleFull: Preachin' the Blues : The Life and Times of Son House
        Type: main
  BibRelationships:
    HasContributorRelationships:
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Daniel Beaumont
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Daniel Beaumont
    IsPartOfRelationships:
      – BibEntity:
          Dates:
            – D: 01
              M: 01
              Type: published
              Y: 2011
            – D: 04
              M: 02
              Type: profile
              Y: 2014
          Identifiers:
            – Type: isbn-print
              Value: 9780195395570
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9780199753352
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9780199753123
          Titles:
            – TitleFull: Preachin' the Blues : The Life and Times of Son House
              Type: main
ResultId 1