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Sto caricando le informazioni... Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTelldi Michael Gray
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The search would have been shorter and easier to read without all the digressive comments on fast food restaurants, southern architecture or lack thereof, the Civil War experiences of Willie McTell's white great-grandfather, and more. Maybe it's because he's British and writing primarily for British readers, but I don't feel that I began to learn anything about Willie McTell until about page 200 although I learned a lot about Michael Gray's taste, experiences, etc. He clearly did a lot of research, but I could have done without the accounts of the unfruitful interviews as well as the comments on strip malls and all that. In some places, he doesn't get it at all, as when he castigates a black preacher associated with Booker T Washington for exhorting black students to behave well. ( ) This is the first UK paperback edition, published by Bloomsbury in October 2008. It incorporates a number of small corrections undetected by the proofreading of the hardback, plus some updates in the final what's-happened-to-everyone-since-McTell's-death chapter. It also offers a McTell family tree, for easy back-reference for the reader. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Evoking the turbulent past of the subject's time and place, this odyssey to rural Georgia peels back the many layers of Blind Willie McTell's compelling, occasionally shocking, but ultimately uplifting story. Portraying him as one of the most gifted artists of his generation, this account uncovers the secrets of McTell's ancestry, the hardships he suffered?including being blind from birth?and the successes he enjoyed. Traveling throughout the South and beyond, this personal and moving journey unearths a lost world of black music, exploring why he drifted in and out of the p Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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