Bayou Underground
Entre Houston et Mobile, le bayou cache bien plus que ses marécages : c’est là que naquit l’âme secrète de la musique américaine.
?The Bayou is a world of its own - a marshy, sometimes treacherous, oft-times sinister land of creeping darkness and living shadows, secret legends and vivid mythology. It is that darkness and those shadows that permeate Bayou Underground, the first study of the Louisiana music scene ever to leave behind the bright lights of big city New Orleans, and plunge instead into the wilderness that not only surrounds the Big Easy, but which stretches for hundreds of miles on either side, from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama.
Bayou Underground explores the music of the region from the House of the Rising Sun to gator hunting with Amos Moses (the one-armed Cajun backwoodsman created by country songwriter Jerry Reed) to artists like Bo Diddley, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, who were influenced by unsung heroes of the Bayou.
In Bayou Underground, the people and the cultures that have called the bayou home are unearthed through their words and lives, but most of all through the music that has, over the last century, either arisen from the swamplands themselves, or been drawn from fellow visitors to the region, as they seek to set down for posterity the emotions, dreams, and enchantments that the area instilled in them.
Part social history, part epic travelogue, and partly a lament for a way of life that has now all but disappeared, Bayou Underground is the gripping story of American music's forgotten childhood, and the parentage it barely even knows about. By comparison, the Big Easy had it easy.
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Bayou Underground explores the music of the region from the House of the Rising Sun to gator hunting with Amos Moses (the one-armed Cajun backwoodsman created by country songwriter Jerry Reed) to artists like Bo Diddley, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, who were influenced by unsung heroes of the Bayou.
In Bayou Underground, the people and the cultures that have called the bayou home are unearthed through their words and lives, but most of all through the music that has, over the last century, either arisen from the swamplands themselves, or been drawn from fellow visitors to the region, as they seek to set down for posterity the emotions, dreams, and enchantments that the area instilled in them.
Part social history, part epic travelogue, and partly a lament for a way of life that has now all but disappeared, Bayou Underground is the gripping story of American music's forgotten childhood, and the parentage it barely even knows about. By comparison, the Big Easy had it easy.
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Bayou Underground offre une plongée unique dans les racines méconnues de la musique américaine, loin des sentiers battus de La Nouvelle-Orléans. Ce livre révèle comment des artistes majeurs, de Bo Diddley à Nick Cave, ont puisé leur inspiration dans les bayous et leurs légendes. C’est aussi un hommage à une culture en voie de disparition, racontée par ceux qui l’ont vécue.
Le livre explore la mythologie musicale du bayou, les influences culturelles entre Cajuns, Créoles et Amérindiens, et l’impact de ce terroir sur des genres comme le blues, le rock ou le country. Il mêle histoire sociale, récits de voyage et portraits d’artistes, tout en questionnant la disparition progressive d’un mode de vie traditionnel.
Aux passionnés de musique curieux des origines des grands standards, aux voyageurs en quête d’histoires authentiques, et aux amoureux de l’Amérique profonde. Son style accessible et son approche narrative séduiront aussi bien les mélomanes que les lecteurs de récits culturels ou d’ethnographie.
Vous pourrez interroger le livre sur les légendes locales (comme celle d’Amos Moses), les parcours d’artistes influencés par le bayou, les instruments typiques de la région, ou encore les liens entre la culture cajun et le rock. Le smartbook répondra aussi à des demandes précises sur des chansons, des lieux ou des périodes historiques.
newsmode Revue de presse
A jolting 18-track joy ride [that] unlocks secrets and back-stories worth savoring.
Thompson clearly knows his music history.
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nick cave
bob dylan
creedence clearwater revival
jerry reed
amos moses
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road trip littéraire
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