I Hear You Knockin: The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
A music history that traces New Orleans rhythm and blues through the testimony of singers, players, and recording scenes. It gives the city’s music culture a vivid, three-dimensional shape.
Work Information
It gathers the city’s voices and memories through oral history.
Jeff Hannusch's I Hear You Knockin': The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues is a serious music book that traces the making of New Orleans R&B through the memories of performers, labels, and club culture.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Swallow Pubns
- Published
- 1985-11-01
- Pages
- 388 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780961424503
- ISBN-10
- 0961424508
- Category
- 洋書/Arts & Photography/Music/Musical Genres/Blues
A must for fans of Rhythm and Blues and New Orleans Music. Now in its fourth printing, Jeff Hannusch received an American Book Award in 1986 for this well written and lavishly illustrated volume of history and the stories of success and failure of more than two dozen important New Orleans Rhythm and Blues figures. Paperback only, 388 pages, 5.5x8.5 inches
Reviews
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I Hear You Knockin - offers first hand stories by the musical stars of the period - giving the reader insight into the struggles, the highs and lows as well as the achievements of the individuals who made great music throughout that time and still lives on through their legacy.
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Very similar in vein the Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans. Many less renown performers are discussed as well as the unique sound of NOLA.
Related Literary Awards
- American Book Awards Edition 7 (1986) ・Winner