Where Dead Voices Gather

Description

A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book--a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music.

First Sentence

Many years ago, I wrote a book called Country.

Description

"A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this narrative. For twenty years, Nick Tosches searched for facts about the life of Emmett Miller, a yodeling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues, and much of the popular music of the twentieth century.". "Beginning with a handful of 78-rpm records and ending at a tombstone in a Macon, Georgia, graveyard, Tosches pieces together a life - and illuminates the spirit of music-makers from Cab Calloway to Bob Dylan, from Homer to the Rolling Stones."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

• Where Dead Voices GatherHardcoverLittle, Brown and Company2001-08-21
• Where Dead Voices GatherJonathan Cape2002-08-29
• Where Dead Voices GatherPaperbackBack Bay Books2002-09-01
• Where Dead Voices GatherElectronic resourceLittle, Brown and Company2009-01-01