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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues.(Book Review)
Publication: Journal of Popular Culture Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 Author: Samponaro, Phil
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COPYRIGHT 2004 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. Elijah Wald. New York: Amistad, 2004.
Recognized as the greatest blues artist ever recorded, guitarist Robert Johnson (1911-1938) embodies for popular culture the Delta blues of the 1930s. In this fine book, musician and author Elijah Wald becomes the latest of such renowned commentators as Sam Charters and Peter Guralnick to tackle Johnson's life and music. What makes this book unique is that Wald argues that Johnson's place in the history of the blues has been misrepresented through much mythmaking, and that Johnson in his day was "essentially a nonentity." By...
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