| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: New possibilities -- Where did you go, John Fahey? Manufacturing discontent ; The suburbs, or communism -- Delta haze. The politics of the songster ; The great liner note breakdown -- Festivals of democracy (variations). Performance as war ; Some music : some dancing : some unusual intermingling -- Coda: The unintended story. |
| Summary |
"For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. Mythologizing himself as Blind Joe Death, Fahey crudely parodied white middle-class fascination with African American blues, including his own. In this book, George Henderson mines Fahey's parallel careers as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and fabulist for the first time. These vocations, inspired originally by Cold War educators' injunction to creatively express rather than suppress feelings, took utterly idiosyncratic and prescient turns."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fahey, John, 1939-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fahey, John, 1939-2001. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Fahey, John, 1939-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Guitarists -- United States.
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Guitarists. |
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United States. |
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Musicologists -- United States.
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Musicologists. |
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Music -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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Music -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Music -- Political aspects. |
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Music. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
1469660806 |
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9781469660806 (electronic book) |
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