Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson
- ISBN-10
- 0816682178
- ISBN-13
- 9780816682171
- Series
- Love in Vain
- Category
- African American musicians
- Pages
- 241
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-28
- Author
- Alan Greenberg
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 GreenbergOCOs remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert JohnsonOCOs life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on JohnsonOCOs 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. "
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