King of the Blues - Daniel de Vise, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
King of the Blues - Daniel de Vise, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press King of the Blues is the story of the first and only superstar of American blues. King grew up in the Deep South, a few…
Specifikacia King of the Blues - Daniel de Vise, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
King of the Blues - Daniel de Vise, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
King of the Blues is the story of the first and only superstar of American blues. King grew up in the Deep South, a few generations after the end of slavery, imprisoned within a cruel system of wage slavery known as sharecropping. But it is also a chronicle of the African-American experience.B.B.
King's boundless ambition and tireless toil gave him initial success, topping the charts in the 1950s and early '60s.But then his career hit a wall when his version of classic blues music could not break King of the Blues will also tell the larger story of the birth of modern popular music. B.B.