Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition Gussow Adam Paperback
Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition Gussow Adam Paperback The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow…
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Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition Gussow Adam Paperback
The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings.In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar.
The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure.