At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made recordings and interviews and took extensive field notes and photographs of blues musicians and their families. Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s presents their experiences in vivid detail through the field notes, the photographs, and the retrospective views of these two passionate researchers. Their notes and documentary photographs take the reader into the midst of memorable encounters with many obscure but no less important musicians, as well as blues legends. This volume is not only an adventure story, but also a scholarly discussion of fieldwork in folklore and ethnomusicology. In this enlightening book, Bokelman and Evans provide an exciting and honest portrayal of blues field research in the 1960s.
At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made recordings and interviews and took extensive field notes and photographs of blues musicians and their families. Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s presents their experiences in vivid detail through the field notes, the photographs, and the retrospective views of these two passionate researchers. Their notes and documentary photographs take the reader into the midst of memorable encounters with many obscure but no less important musicians, as well as blues legends. This volume is not only an adventure story, but also a scholarly discussion of fieldwork in folklore and ethnomusicology. In this enlightening book, Bokelman and Evans provide an exciting and honest portrayal of blues field research in the 1960s.
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s
328Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s
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ISBN-13: | 9781496841988 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi |
Publication date: | 11/08/2022 |
Series: | American Made Music Series |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.00(d) |