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1	Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama more books like this by Ann Charters (Editor), Samuel Charters (Editor) add to wishlist Literature is a conversation -- between writers and other writers, and writers and readers. In their introduction to literature anthology, Ann Charters, editor of the bestselling "The Story and Its Writer," and Samuel Charters, a much-published poet and novelist, bring students into this conversation through a distinctive set of features, ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £21.18!
2	Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama more books like this by Ann Charters add to wishlist Uniquely emphasizing how writers of fiction, poetry, and drama talk about what they do, this introduction to literature lets the words of writers guide students in their exploration of the many ways to read, think, and write about literature. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £22.40! \| first editions
3	Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist Samuel Charters, the eminent historian of jazz and the blues, evokes the character and spirit of the self-professed inventor of jazz. "Funny and moving."--The New Yorker* see all copies from £6.83! new only from £7.25! \| first editions
4	A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist In "A Language of Song", Samuel Charters - one of the pioneering collectors of African American music - writes of a trip to West Africa where he found 'a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere ...from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to ... see all copies from £10.58! new only from £14.27!
5	The bluesmen; the story and the music of the men who made the blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £32.40! first editions
6	Robert Johnson more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist One of America's most respected authorities on the blues delves deeply into the recorded legacy of Robert Johnson, transcribing each of his songs with dedicated accuracy and distilling the meaning of every sound and phrase. see all copies from £9.94! new only from £27.41! \| first editions
7	Jazz: A History of the New York Scene more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist Though New Orleans can lay claim to being the birthplace of jazz, and Chicago can boast that it discovered Louis Armstrong, no other city in the world has as deep and rich a jazz history as New York. From Harlem to Greenwich Village, ragtime to swing to bebop and beyond, jazz has inflected and reflected the city's growth and-through the recording, ... see all copies from £5.97! signed copies \| first editions
8	The country blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the ... see all copies from £6.34! new only from £12.57! \| first editions
9	Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After the Ed Sulliv more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist A novella, in the form of an extended monologue, of Elvis's phone call to his mother. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £8.47! \| first editions
10	The Blues Makers more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist } The Blues Makers is Samuel Charters's monumental study of the blues, its makers, and the environment from which they merged. IT was originally published in two separate volumes, The Bluesmen and Sweet as the Showers of Rain, and for a long time languished out of print. Now, with the addition of a new preface and a new chapter on Robert Johnson ... see all copies from £11.18!
11	The Roots of the Blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist "I went to Africa to find the roots of the blues. " So Samuel Charters begins the extraordinary story of his research. But what began as a study of how the blues was handed down from African slaves to musicians of today via the slave ships, became something much more complex. For in Africa Samuel Charters discovered a music which was not just a ... see all copies from £6.45! new only from £6.45!
12	The Roots of the Blues: An African Search more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! first editions
13 view cover	The Day is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist In this memoir, musicologist Samuel Charters shares his obsession to record authentic Bahamian music. "Dig my Grave," a melody that was originally recorded by Alan Lomax during a 1935 expedition to the island of Andros, inspired Charters to reenact Lomax's journey with his future wife, Ann Ruth Danberg, in 1958. In this book, Charters describes ... see all copies from £4.62! new only from £9.96! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Legacy of the Blues: Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist Blues is a languageone which has evolved its own rules and which is the sole property of a culture always forced to the periphery of white society. As such it is a political language. Whether it is passed as a legacy from African village to Mississippi farm, or from farm to Chicago ghetto, or from ghetto to Paris cafe, it is part of a larger ... see all copies from £6.86! new only from £11.57! \| first editions
15 view cover	Sweet as the Showers of Rain: The Bluesmen, Volume II more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £3.59! new only from £13.80! \| first editions
16	Some poems, poets : studies in American underground poetry since 1945 more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £8.76! first editions
17 view cover	Roots of the Blues: An African more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £10.60! new only from £14.34! \| first editions
18 view cover	Blues Faces: A Portrait of the Blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters, Ann Charters add to wishlist Featuring photographs of blues musicians taken by Ann Charters, this text presents a portrait of one of America's most vital musical artforms. Sam Charters provides a commentary to accompany the portraits. see all copies from £9.10! new only from £19.26! \| first editions
19	Jazz, New Orleans, 1885-1963: An Index to the Negro Musicians of New Orleans more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £17.99! first editions
20	Mr. Jabi and Mr. Smythe by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £4.99! signed copies \| first editions
21	Tomas Transtromer more books like this by Robert Hass (Editor), Samuel Barclay Charters (Translator), May Swenson (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from £6.80! first editions
22	Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn: An Imaginary Memoir more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £6.86! first editions
23 view cover	A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist Charters breaks new ground with his discussion of the earliest New Orleans recordings up to the present and the renewed concern over the city's musical heritage, which is at great risk after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. see all copies from £13.09! new only from £22.90!
24 view cover	The Legacy of the Blues: A Glimpse Into the Art and the Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen: An Informal Study more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £3.39! new only from £8.98! \| first editions
25	The poetry of the blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £5.83! first editions

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