William Ferris—GIVE MY POOR HEART EASE—1st HC—Mississippi Blues—DVD & CD

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED First Edition HARDCOVER in VG+ / UNREAD condition: • “GIVE MY POOR HEART EAST: VOICES OF THE MISSISSIPPI BLUES”(University of North Carolina Press, 2009) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY WILLIAM FERRIS • INCLUDES A CD OF ORINGIAL MUSIC & A DVD OF ORGINAL FILM• SIGNING NOTE: The author WILLIAM FERRIS’s inscription & signature appears, in blank ink, on the Half Title Page. • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “I reveled in these stories.” —TONI MORRISON• “Here are the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions—from one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and prison work chants. Celebrities such as B. B. KING and WILLIE DIXON, along with performers known best in their neighborhoods, express the full range of human and artistic experience--joyful and gritty, raw and painful…. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist WILLIAM FERRIS toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, GIVE MY POOR HEART EASE puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with FERRIS’s photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South.” —THE PUBLISHER • “Blues and jazz are America’s most treasured gifts to the world. These powerful stories bring us face to face with the blues and remind us that the music was used to survive in the face of adversity and terror.” —QUINCY JONES • “This book is indispensable for anyone who cares to know the roots of Mississippi blues music. Some of these interviews are painful to read, but like singing the blues they make the pains bearable, and sometimes even comic. GIVE MY POOR HEART EASE includes much more than simply blues music; it covers a wide spectrum of African American and American experience in a place that just happens to be Mississippi.” —ERNEST J. GAINES • “These voices express the blues in a deep and truthful way. They touched my heart.” —B. B. KING• “Like BILL FERRIS, I grew up in Mississippi. My life is continually shaped by the blues. This book captures those rich voices so well.” —MORGAN FREEMAN• “These stories and photographs evoke memories of my childhood and world gone by but still with us—the blues are now and forever.” —WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY • “These powerful voices use music to rise above and to survive tragedy, and their lives are an inspiration.” —T. BONE BURNETT • “A powerful book that presents a deep and probing look at music, culture, and Mississippi at particularly important moments in history. The stories told here work on multiple levels, as biographical context for creativity and artistic power, but also as literary expressions of the highest order.” —TOM RANKIN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES, DUKE UNIVERSITY• “Captures the cadences of [the musicians’] spoken voices and the stories of their lives, and the DVD and CD that accompany the book allow us to hear their music…. If the unhealed wound of injustice is everywhere present in these stories, many of the people telling them, like FERRIS himself, have refused to see their lives reduced to race and stubbornly resist despair.” —HARPER’S MAGAZINE• “For blues lovers who love their experience pure and strong…. Joyous, powerful, and authentic, this package is designed to both inform and entertain those willing to plunge into this audacious world.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY• “An exceptional work, simultaneously one of the most beautiful and one of the most important that has ever appeared on the blues.” —ABS MAGAZINE• “A captivating and diverse multimedia experience for fans and scholars of the blues and gospel music…. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the blues or Southern history.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)• “FERRIS…has given historians and music fans a gift.” —ANNISTON STAR• • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “GIVE MY POOR HEART EAST: VOICES OF THE MISSISSIPPI BLUES” AUTHOR & PHOTGRAPHER: WILLIAM FERRIS ILLUSTRATIONS: YES. BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS TYPE: HARDCOVER INCLUDES: MUSIC CD & MOVIE DVD PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS (Chapel Hill), 2009 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST EDITION* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 298 ISBN: 978-0-8078-3325-4 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Per university house style, the price is not printed on the DJ. DJ is clean & bright. Corners & spine tips are fine. Light (hard-to-see) scratching on sides. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Grey boards are clean & bright. Corners & edges are fine. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. Pages are all pointedly bright & clean— with no writing (save for the author’s on the Half Title Page), no underlining, no stains, no rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. This copy is CLEARLY UNREAD. • THE ACCOMPANYING CD & DVD are each in LIKE NEW condition & neither has been played. • SIGNING NOTE: The author WILLIAM FERRIS’s inscription & signature appears, in blank ink, on the Half Title Page as follows: “For Carol Ann [SURNAME] and Marc [SURNAME]—who appreciate these artists and their worlds with their hearts. All good wishes, BILL FERRIS, Nashville, Oct. 9, 2009.” • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a protected & sturdy box. 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Price: 47.5 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-10-28T10:56:00.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.5 USD