Roger Wood Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood & James Fraher

Aperçu: Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood & James Fraher

Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood & James Fraher

Cet article est supprimé et ne peut plus être commandé !

Avertissez-moi lorsque l'article sera de nouveau disponible.

Veuillez saisir la série de nombres dans le champ de texte suivant.

J'ai pris connaissance des prescriptions de protection des données et je les accepte

Réf. de l’article: book53495
Poids en kg: 1.9

P Maintenant bonus points

Gebundene Ausgabe - 323 Seiten - Univ of Texas Pr - 2006 - Englisch "[Wood's] firsthand accounts...plus

Fermer menu

Roger Wood: Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood & James Fraher

Gebundene Ausgabe - 323 Seiten - Univ of Texas Pr - 2006 - Englisch

"[Wood's] firsthand accounts of contemporary Texas zydeco are unmatched anywhere. . . . This book is destined to become the definitive history of Texas zydeco." —John Minton, Professor of Folklore, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisianan as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music originally known as "la-la" quickly trickled west, too. There it fused with blues to create a new sound that came to be known, spelled, and recorded as "zydeco." Black Creoles from Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs during the first half of the twentieth century. As they resettled, so did their music.

Texas Zydeco describes how many of the most formative players and moments in modern zydeco history developed in Texas, especially Houston. As the new players traveled back and forth between Houston and Lafayette, Louisiana, they spread the new sound along a "zydeco corridor" that is the musical axis around which zydeco revolves to this day. Roger Wood and James Fraher spent years traveling this corridor, interviewing and photographing hundreds of authentic musi-cians, dancers, club owners, and fans. As their words and images make clear, zydeco, both historically and today, belongs not to a state but to all the people of the upper Gulf Coast.

ROGER WOOD is the author of Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues and has contributed essays on Texas music to numerous other books and periodicals. He has taught literature and writing at Houston Community College-Central since 1981.

JAMES F RAHE R has been a photographer for more than thirty years. He contributed the photographs for Down in Houston and is the author of The Blues Is a Feeling: Voices and Visions of African-American Musicians. He resides near Chicago.

Propriétés de l'article: Roger Wood: Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood & James Fraher

Interpret: Roger Wood
Titre de l'album: Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood & James Fraher
Genre Folk
Année de publication 2006
Einband Hardcover
Langue English
Kategorie Ouvrage de référence
Verleger University of Texas Press
Artikelart Bücher/Books
Label Univ of Texas Pr
Seiten 323
Größe 20,3 x 2,5 x 25,4 cm
EAN: 9780292712584
Poids en kg: 1.9

ROGER WOOD is the author of Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues and has contributed essays on... plus

Fermer menu

"Roger Wood"

ROGER WOOD is the author of Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues and has contributed essays on Texas music to numerous other books and periodicals. He has taught literature and writing at Houston Community College-Central since 1981.

Lire, écr. et débatt. des analyses…plus

Fermer menu

Évaluations de clients pour "Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood & James Fraher"

Écrire une évaluation

Les évaluations sont publiées après vérification.