Exploring Chicago Blues:: Inside the Scene, Past and Present Contributor(s): Cummings-Yeates, Rosalind (Author), Branch, Billy (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1626193223 ISBN-13: 9781626193222 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - Music | Genres & Styles - Blues - Music | History & Criticism - General |
LCCN: 2014004938 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.45 lbs) 128 pages |
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Publisher Description: Blues history is steeped in Chicago's sidewalks; it floats out of its restaurants, airport lounges and department stores. It is a fundamental part of the city's heritage that every resident should know and every visitor should be afraid to miss. Allow Ros |
Contributor Bio(s): Cummings-Yeates, Rosalind: - Rosalind Cummings-Yeates is a journalist and arts critic with the same Chicago and Mississippi roots that helped create the Chicago blues. She has been an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago for over ten years, and she writes a monthly blues column for the Illinois Entertainer, Sweet Home."?A three-time Grammy nominee and retired governor for the Chicago Grammy chapter, Billy Branch is a harmonica virtuoso and legendary Chicago blues musician. With a career that spans forty years, he has performed all over the world spreading the Chicago blues gospel." |