Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson Contributor(s): Greenberg, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816680809 ISBN-13: 9780816680801 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Screenplays - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Music | Genres & Styles - Blues |
Dewey: 791.437 |
LCCN: 2012027595 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan Greenberg's remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert Johnson's life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on Johnson's life and the culture of the Mississippi Delta and blues music during the 1930s, Love in Vain is at once a classic of music writing and a screenplay whose reputation lies firmly in the realm of great American literature. |