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Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
Barrelhouse Blues Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
Author: Paul Oliver
In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465008810
ISBN-10: 046500881X
Publication Date: 8/24/2009
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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