The Life and Music of Booker Bukka White: Recalling the Blues by Johnson, David W.

The Life and Music of Booker Bukka White: Recalling the Blues

Booker "Bukka" White (1905-1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The...
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Author: David W. Johnson
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The Life and Music of Booker Bukka White: Recalling the Blues by Johnson, David W.

The Life and Music of Booker Bukka White: Recalling the Blues

€39,65

The Life and Music of Booker Bukka White: Recalling the Blues

€39,65
Author: David W. Johnson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Booker "Bukka" White (1905-1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White: Recalling the Blues, David W. Johnson traces the trajectory of White's life from his early years in Chickasaw and Grenada Counties, Mississippi, through his imprisonment in the notorious Mississippi State Penal Farm in the late 1930s, to making a new life for himself in Memphis, Tennessee.

For years only a name on old 78 records--and believed by some to be dead--White was "rediscovered" by John Fahey and ED Denson in the summer of 1963. He went on to have a productive second career, playing venues and festivals throughout the United States and in Canada, and touring Europe and Great Britain with the American Folk Blues Festival. In 1975, he was invited to Bremen, Germany, for a solo concert that was released as his final album.

In July 1976, the author interviewed White shortly before his discharge from a Massachusetts hospital where he was recovering from a stroke. After spending eight days in the intensive care unit and three weeks in rehabilitation, White was ready to talk about his life. Recalling stories of "slavery time," White told the author, ". . . some of the [formerly enslaved] guys were wise enough to hold that in their head where they could tell a young pants, where it would go down in history, you know. Just like you doing that now--something happen to you, somebody else will carry that on."

The product of years of research, The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White is the first full-length biography of this remarkable country blues performer. Interviewing those who knew White, including his second cousin B.B. King, Johnson has written a detailed and sometimes surprising account of how a young Black man born in the first decade of the twentieth century--the grandson of a slave--found a way to rise above his circumstances and maintain a decades-long career as a musician.

Author: David W. Johnson
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 12/16/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781496853448

About the Author
David W. Johnson is author of Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers, published by University Press of Mississippi.

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