TY - BOOK AU - Santoro,Gene TI - Highway 61 revisited: the tangled roots of American jazz, blues, & country music SN - 9780195348255 AV - ML3477 .S21 2004eb U1 - 781.64/0973 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Popular music KW - United States KW - History and criticism KW - Jazz KW - Musique populaire KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire et critique KW - MUSIC KW - Genres & Styles KW - Pop Vocal KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Avatars -- The postwar jazz era -- Rebirth of the blues -- In the garage -- Possible futures N2 - What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz-not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary bebop rebel Charlie Parker once put it, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Unwinding that Zen-like statement, Santoro traces how jazz's existential art has infused outstanding musicians in nearly every wing of American popular music-blues, folk, gospel, psychedelic rock, country UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=161247 ER -