Going Up The Country

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. The book includes historical material as well as contemporary reflections by Bokelman and Evans on the times and the people they met during their southern journeys. Their notes and photographs take the reader into the midst of memorable encounters with many obscure but no less important musicians, as well as blues legends, including Robert Pete Williams, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Al Wilson (cofounder of Canned Heat), Babe Stovall, Reverend Ruben Lacy, and Jack Owens. This volume is not only an adventure story, but also a scholarly discussion of fieldwork in folklore and ethnomusicology. Including retrospective context and commentary, the field note chapters describe searches for musicians, recording situations, social and family dynamics of musicians, and race relations and the racial environment, as well as the practical, ethical, and logistical problems of doing fieldwork. The book features over one hundred documentary photographs that depict the field recording sessions and the activities, lives, and living conditions of the artists and their families. These photographs serve as a visual counterpart equivalent to the field notes. The remaining chapters explain the authors’ methodology, planning, and motivations, as well as their personal backgrounds prior to going into the field, their careers afterwards, and their thoughts about fieldwork and folklore research in general. In this enlightening book, Bokelman and Evans provide an exciting and honest portrayal of blues field research in the 1960s.

Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts, turned their backs on the establishment of the 1950s and moved to the backwoods of rural Vermont, spawning a revolution in lifestyle, politics, sexuality, and business practices that would have a profound impact on both the state and the nation. The movement brought hippies, back-to-the-landers, political radicals, sexual libertines, and utopians to a previously conservative state and led us to today's farm to table way of life, environmental consciousness, and progressive politics as championed by Bernie Sanders.

The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest growth industry, a self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex that has become entrenched without public awareness, much less voter consent. He answers, in an extraordinary way, the essential question: What, in human terms, is the price we pay? He has looked for answers to that question in every corner of the “prison nation,” a world far off the media grid — the America of struggling towns and cities left behind by the information age and desperate for jobs and money. Hallinan shows why the more prisons we build, the more prisoners we create, placating everyone at the expense of the voiceless prisoners, who together make up one of the largest migrations in our nation’s history.

The Big Guitar Chord Songbook: The Sixties is here: Now you can sing and play all your favourite hits from the Sixties. Over 80 rock and pop classics from the likes The Beatles, The Who, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and more. Each song is arranged in the original keys, complete with full lyrics, guitar chord boxes and a playing guide. The setlist includes : - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay [Otis Redding] - (Take A Little) Piece Of My Heart [Erma Franklin] - A Whiter Shade Of Pale [Procol Harum] - All Along The Watchtower [Jimi Hendrix] - Alone Again Or [Love] - Born To Be Wild [Steppenwolf] - Catch The Wind [Donovan] - Dance To The Music [Sly And The Family Stone] - Dancing In The Street (Martha Reeves & The Vandellas) - Daydream [The Lovin' Spoonful] - Days (The Kinks) - Give Peace A Chance [John Lennon] - Gloria [Them] - Go Now [Moody Blues, The] - Going Up The Country [Canned Heat] - Here Comes The Sun [The Beatles] - Homeward Bound [Simon & Garfunkel] - House Of The Rising Sun [The Animals] - I Got You (I Feel Good) [James Brown] - I Got You Babe [Sonny & Cher] - I Say A Little Prayer [Aretha Franklin] - I'm A Believer [The Monkees] - Keep On Running [The Spencer Davis Group] - Like A Rolling Stone [Bob Dylan] - Louie, Louie [The Kingsmen] - My Generation [The Who] - Oh, Pretty Woman [Roy Orbison] - People Are Strange [The Doors] - Pictures Of Matchstick Men [Status Quo] - Somebody To Love [Jefferson Airplane] - Son Of A Preacher Man [Dusty Springfield] - Space Oddity [David Bowie] - Subterranean Homesick Blues [Bob Dylan] - Sugar, Sugar [The Archies] - Sunshine Of Your Love [Cream] - Suspicious Minds [Elvis Presley] - The Weight [The Band] - These Boots Are Made For Walking [Nancy Sinatra] - To Love Somebody (The Bee Gees) - Tobacco Road [The Nashville Teens] - Wichita Lineman [Glen Campbell] - Wild Thing [The Troggs] - Will You Love Me Tomorrow [The Shirelles] - Wouldn't It Be Nice [The Beach Boys] - You Really Got Me [The Kinks] And many more!

Listen to the Blues! Exploring A Musical Genre provides an overview of this distinctly American musical genre for fans of the blues and curious readers alike, with a focus on 50 must-hear artists, albums, and subgenres. Unlike other books on the blues, which tend to focus on musician biographies, Listen to the Blues! devotes time to the compositions, recordings, and musical legacies of blues musicians from the early 20th century to the present. Although the author references musical structure, harmony, form, and other musical concepts, the volume avoids technical language; therefore, it is a volume that should be of interest to the casual blues fan, to students of blues music and its history, and to more serious blues fans. The chapters on the impact of the blues on popular culture and the legacy of the blues also put the genre in a broader historical context than what is found in many books on the blues. The book opens with a background chapter that provides an overview of the history and structure of blues music. A substantial, encyclopedic chapter that focuses on 50 must-hear blues musicians follows, as does a chapter that explores the impact on popular culture of blues music and musicians and a chapter that focuses on the legacy of the genre. A bibliography rounds out the work.

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