David Evans (musicologist)
Encyclopedia
David Evans is a musicologist and director of the Ethnomusicology/Regional Studies program at the University of Memphis
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He has written or edited a number of books on the blues
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University of Memphis
The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
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He has written or edited a number of books on the blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
, and also performs. He won a Grammy in 2003 for "Best Album Notes" for the CD Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - The Worlds Of Charley Patton.
Published work
- Tommy Johnson (London: Studio Vista, 1971)
- Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982)
- The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to the Blues (New York: Perigee, 2005)
Further reading
- "Evans, David" (bio), entry by Jack CooperJack CooperJack Cooper may refer to:*Jack Cooper, businessman who owned Cooper Canada*Jack Cooper *Jack Cooper *Jack Cooper...
. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, Anand Prahlad (author/editor) Vol. I, A-F (Greenwood Press, 2005) ISBN 0313330360