Love in vain
Subtitle: a vision of Robert Johnson
By: Alan Greenberg ; foreword by Martin Scorsese ; introduction by Stanley Crouch
Contributors: Scorsese, Martin; Crouch, Stanley
Edition: 1st University of Minnesota press ed.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780816680801
Subjects: Drama; African American musicians; Blues musicians
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 Greenberg’s remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert Johnson’s life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on Johnson’s 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."--p. [2] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.