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Contributor
Jim O'Neal (Foreword by)
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
EAN
9780872866218
ISBN
9780872866218
Item Length
139mm
Publication Name
Woman with Guitar
Release Date
24/07/2014
Release Year
2014
Title
Woman with Guitar
Subtitle
Memphis Minnie's Blues
UPC
9780872866218
Publication Year
2014
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
Item Height
215mm
Author
Paul Garon, Beth Garon
Publisher
City Lights Books
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Music
Item Width
139mm
Item Weight
467g
Number of Pages
408 Pages

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Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues artists, Memphis Minnie (1897-1973) wrote and recorded hundreds of songs. Blues people as diverse as Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Big Mama Thornton, and Chuck Berry have acknowledged her as a major influence. At a time when most female vocalists sang Tin Pan Alley material, Minnie wrote her own lyrics and accompanied her singing with virtuoso guitar playing. Thanks to her merciless imagination and dark humor, her songs rank among the most vigorous and challenging popular poetry in any language. Woman with Guitar is the first full-length study of the life and work of this extraordinary free spirit, focusing on the lively interplay between Minnie's evolving artistry and the African American community in which she lived and worked. Drawing on folklore, psychoanalysis, critical theory, women's studies, and surrealism, the authors' explorations of Minnie's songs illuminate the poetics of popular culture as well as the largely hidden history of working-class women's self-emancipation. This revised and expanded edition includes a wealth of new biographical material, including photographs, record contracts, sheet music, and period advertisements, which further vivify this portrait of an African American musical legend. Complete, updated discography included. Woman with Guitar is a fascinating, thorough and extremely valuable biography of one of American musical history's most vibrant and pioneering artists. As the first woman singer/songwriter/ guitarist to ever reach stardom, the story of her life in music, on and off the stage, during one of the most important and formative periods of the origins of popular music, is an indelible, crucial window into that history. -Bonnie Raitt Woman with Guitar has been, since it was first published in 1992 and now with this new revised and extended edition, still the only real definitive biography of Memphis Minnie, the most important female singer, songwriter and guitarist in the history of Delta blues. -Lucinda Williams As a most ardent and devoted lifelong fan of Memphis Minnie and her music, I avidly devoured the original Woman with Guitar when it first came out in 1992. Now I am excited to be reading this new edition, and so grateful for it's additional rare photos and carefully researched details, which shed even more light on this seminal, iconic, almost mythical musical pioneer, who was way ahead of her time, and whose soulful music and life so deeply inspired and influenced so many! A must read - whether you are already a Memphis Minnie fan, or just discovering her for the first time! - Maria Muldaur An excellent book. -Bill Wyman Woman with Guitar is not simply a carefully researched biography of Memphis Minnie, complied from the memories of her relatives, friends, and fellow performers; it is a vivid portrait of a talented singer and guitarist . . . The authors have added a new dimension to blues scholarship. -Paul Oliver, author of Blues Off the Record Woman with Guitar is a delight. The book is both thorough and brilliant, a rare combination these days. . . . A fanatic interest in Minnie underpins and energizes this wonderful biography. -David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness Paul Garon is a co-founder of Living Blues magazine and author of The Devil's Son-in-Law and Blues and the Poetic Spirit. Beth Garon is a painter and collagist. The Garons operate a rare-book business in Chicago, Illinois, and have been associated with the US surrealist movement for many years.

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Publisher
City Lights Books
ISBN-13
9780872866218
eBay Product ID (ePID)
195295990

Product Key Features

Book Title
Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
Author
Paul Garon, Beth Garon
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Music
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
408 Pages

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Item Height
215mm
Item Width
139mm
Item Weight
467g

Additional Product Features

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Beth Garon, Paul Garon
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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