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Robert Johnson

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Even with just forty-one recordings to his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-38) is a towering figure in the history of the blues. His vast influence on twentieth-century American music, combined with his mysterious death at the age of twenty-seven, still encourage the speculation and myth that have long obscured the facts about his life. The most famous legend depicts a young Johnson meeting the Devil at a dusty Mississippi crossroads at midnight and selling his soul in exchange for prodigious guitar skills.

Barry Lee Pearson and Bill McCulloch examine the full range of writings about Johnson and weigh the conflicting accounts of Johnson's life story against interviews with blues musicians and others who knew the man. Their extensive research uncovers a life every bit as compelling as the fabrications and exaggerations that have sprung up around it. In examining the bluesman's life and music, and the ways in which both have been reinvented and interpreted by other artists, critics, and fans, Robert Johnson: Lost and Found charts the cultural forces that have mediated the expression of African American artistic traditions.

| Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Making of a Paper Trail 2. Our Hero 3. The Anecdotes 4. Early Notices 5. The Reissue Project, Phase One 6. Reissue, Phase Two 7. Myth Eclipses Reality List of Illustrations 8. Reissue, Phase Three; or, Fifteen Minutes of Fame 9. A Myth of the Twenty-first Century 10. Satan and Sorcery 11. The Song Texts 12. A House of Cards 13. Who Was He, Really? Notes Bibliography Index | A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005. — A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
|Barry Lee Pearson is a professor of English and American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, a noted blues scholar, and the author of three books, including Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers. Bill McCulloch is a writer, freelance editor, and musician. He collaborated with Pearson on articles about thirty-six American blues artists for the American National Biography.

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Even with just forty-one recordings to his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-38) is a towering figure in the history of the blues. His vast influence on twentieth-century American music, combined with his mysterious death at the age of twenty-seven, still encourage the speculation and myth that have long obscured the facts about his life. The most famous legend depicts a young Johnson meeting the Devil at a dusty Mississippi crossroads at midnight and selling his soul in exchange for prodigious guitar skills.

Barry Lee Pearson and Bill McCulloch examine the full range of writings about Johnson and weigh the conflicting accounts of Johnson's life story against interviews with blues musicians and others who knew the man. Their extensive research uncovers a life every bit as compelling as the fabrications and exaggerations that have sprung up around it. In examining the bluesman's life and music, and the ways in which both have been reinvented and interpreted by other artists, critics, and fans, Robert Johnson: Lost and Found charts the cultural forces that have mediated the expression of African American artistic traditions.

| Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Making of a Paper Trail 2. Our Hero 3. The Anecdotes 4. Early Notices 5. The Reissue Project, Phase One 6. Reissue, Phase Two 7. Myth Eclipses Reality List of Illustrations 8. Reissue, Phase Three; or, Fifteen Minutes of Fame 9. A Myth of the Twenty-first Century 10. Satan and Sorcery 11. The Song Texts 12. A House of Cards 13. Who Was He, Really? Notes Bibliography Index | A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005. — A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
|Barry Lee Pearson is a professor of English and American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, a noted blues scholar, and the author of three books, including Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers. Bill McCulloch is a writer, freelance editor, and musician. He collaborated with Pearson on articles about thirty-six American blues artists for the American National Biography.

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