River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi

by Elijah Wald

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Companion to the major Smithsonian Institution series for public television and radio, River of Song explores the breadth and depth of American music at the close of the twentieth century - through narrative, photography and the words of the musicians themselves.

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Elijah Wald, is a Grammy Award-winning writer, teacher, and musician whose books include Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues and How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll; An Alternative History of American Popular Music, and Dave Van Ronk's memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Music, Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
780.977Arts & recreationMusicMusicHistory, geographic treatment, biographyNorth AmericaMidwestern U.S.
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ML200.7 .M73 .W35MusicLiterature on musicLiterature on musicHistory and criticism
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