Publication

1983 - Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

63,000 words, Guess

Page Count

252 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing522928

Classifications

  • DDC784.5/3/00924
  • LCCML420.J735 G7 1983

Description

Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan Greenberg’s remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert Johnson’s life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on Johnson’s life and the culture of the Mississippi Delta and blues music during the 1930s, Love in Vain is at once a classic of music writing and a screenplay whose reputation lies firmly in the realm of great American literature.

Subjects

Topics

DramaBiographyBlues musiciansMississippi -- Drama.Blues musicians -- Drama.African American musiciansJohnson, robert, 1911-1938

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Genres

  • Drama.

Other Editions

  • Love in vain: the life and legend of Robert JohnsonDoubleday1983-01-01

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