{"product_id":"deep-inside-the-blues-9781496847416","title":"Deep Inside the Blues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor thirty years, Margo Cooper has been documenting the lives of blues musicians, their families and homes, neighbourhoods, festivals, and gigs. Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper's interviews with blues artists, illustrated with over 160 of her photographs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR:\u003c\/b\u003e \"The urgent need to preserve a cornerstone of American culture led folklorists like John Lomax to travel the country documenting early blues recordings and writers like Amiri Baraka to publish \u003ci\u003eBlues People: Negro Music in White America\u003c\/i\u003e. Although Margo Cooper did not know it when she began more than twenty years ago, she has followed that tradition and produced a documentary project that archives the oral and visual histories of blues musicians, their families, and communities in northern Mississippi and the Delta.\" - ayemi shakur, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR:\u003c\/b\u003e \"Cooper's images remind us that the blues is as much attitude or way of life as art form. . . . She sees herself as an advocate for the music, a celebrant, but not an apologist. Clearly, her photographs are a labor of love.\" - Mark Feeney, \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeep Inside the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e avoids the culture-wide tendency to romanticize and elegize its subjects as ‘the last surviving bluesmen’ or view them solely as conduits for the pain of racial oppression. Instead, Cooper’s interviews offer a nuanced celebration of the musicians she has come to know—indomitable individuals, storytellers and healers both, who have etched themselves into the world’s imagination.\" - Adam Gussow, author of \u003cem\u003eWhose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeep Inside the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is truly historic. It is a stunning tribute to the musicians and to Cooper for her vision and persistence in gathering their photographs and oral histories.\" - William R. Ferris, author of\u003cem\u003e I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531295531351,"sku":"9781496847416","price":34.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496847416.jpg?v=1731882533","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deep-inside-the-blues-9781496847416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}