Browse: Music History, Jazz & Blues, Adam Gussow

Beneath the effusive and effervescent tone of Mister Satan's Apprentice lie gnawing questions of race and identity, of cultural imperialism and human connection. And precisely because Gussow... — Washington Post More…

Ably details the African American core of the blues and the shifting racial dynamics that have made the music so compelling to white Americans and blues fans in other cultures. Blues scholars... — Library Journal More…

Beneath the effusive and effervescent tone of Mister Satan's Apprentice lie gnawing questions of race and identity, of cultural imperialism and human connection. And precisely because Gussow... — Washington Post More…

Enough roadblocks, heartbreaks, catastrophes, and redemptions to fill a modern-day Pilgrim's Progress . . . A fascinating and revealing portrait of one of the most unusual partnerships in the... — Living Blues More…

Ably details the African American core of the blues and the shifting racial dynamics that have made the music so compelling to white Americans and blues fans in other cultures. Blues scholars... — Library Journal More…

Gussow's scope is broad and deep, impeccably researched and far too complex and thorough for a brief review to do it justice. . . . His central thesis. . . [challenges] much of the mythologizing... — Living Blues More…

Gussow's scope is broad and deep, impeccably researched and far too complex and thorough for a brief review to do it justice. . . . His central thesis. . . [challenges] much of the mythologizing... — Living Blues More…