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The Devil's Music

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780306807435

Price: £12.99

ON SALE: 22nd March 1997

Genre: The Arts / Music

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Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil’s Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African Americans. From its roots in the turn-of-the-century honky-tonks of New Orleans and the barrelhouses and plantations of the Mississippi Delta to modern legends such as John Lee Hooker and B. B. King, the blues comes alive here through accounts by the blues musicians themselves and those who knew them. Throughout this wide-ranging and fascinating book, Giles Oakley describes the texture of the life that made the blues possible, and the changing attitudes toward the music. The Devil’s Music is a wholehearted and loving examination of one of America’s most powerful traditions.

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