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title: "Urban Blues (Phoenix Books)"
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# Urban Blues (Phoenix Books)

**Brand:** charles keil
**Price:** € 44.44
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- **What is this?** Urban Blues (Phoenix Books) by charles keil
- **How much does it cost?** € 44.44 with free shipping
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Urban Blues (Phoenix Books)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    50 years on, this book is still fresh
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016*

This book is a firsthand account of leading blues musicians during their prime in the 1960s. Along with Amiri Baraka's "Blues People," Charlie Keil's "Urban Blues" was a groundbreaking attempt to take black popular music seriously. "Urban Blues" was one of the first music studies based on fieldwork in an American city, and it remains fresh today because it offers a window into the music and lives of BB King, Bobbie "Blue" Bland, Ray Charles, and other musicians who are no longer with us. In my favorite passage, Keil is waiting to interview BB King while Martin Luther King Jr. is giving his "I Have a Dream Speech" on the television set on the tour bus. A timeless classic.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Work that stood the test of time.
  

*by H***L on Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022*

I feel so grateful for this book.Keil is a gifted sociologist, ethnographer, and ethnomusicologist and his depiction of Blues music in this book displays humor, innocence and curiosity. Through the text, I felt the love and honest inquiry that Keil has for Africa and those of the diaspora_through his wanting to understand, document and analyze his findings in a heart filled, easy to understand format. I have recommended this book to all of my friends and family.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Idiosyncratic book
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020*

If you're looking for a straightforward history of the blues, read some other book first. Francis David, Elijah Wald, Peter Guralnick, Robert Palmer. This has a very idiosyncratic focus. More about culture and society than the music and musicians.

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