- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407018133
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
In Search Of The Blues
Black Voices, White Visions
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407018133
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
An important and often beautifully written piece of historical revisionism
Observer Music Monthly
Evocative and engaging
Tim Willis, Sunday Telegraph
Fascinating... Hamilton's book deserves to be read, particularly by those who think they've read it all before. In future, all searches for the blues must start here
Robert Sandall, Sunday Times
Hamilton has a keen, unforgiving eye...an eloquent book about people making the forgotten important
Roz Kaveney, Time Out
Hamilton has done a good job of researching a subject that blues fans will find fascinating
Prospect
Hamilton tells such a good story that she turns a work of scholarship into a page-turner
Times Literary Supplement
Hamilton's outstanding book profiles the folklorists and collectors who shaped the concept of Delta blues... A plausible and provocative book. And it has transformed my view of the blues
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times
Iconoclastic... Marybeth Hamilton proves herself a fine and sensitive detective... It shakes the foundation myth of so much music that followed, as well as explaining a great deal about what it is to be a record collector, itself a dying calling in the age of the iPod
Caspar Llewellyn-Smith, Observer
Provocatively entertaining...Assiduously researched and beautifully written, what this book reminds us is that the blues has always meant something quite different to white audiences than to black ones
Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph