Where Dead Voices Gather
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: August 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780316895071
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Contemporary popular music; Composers & Musicians - General; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; United States; Biography/Autobiography; Singers; History & Criticism - General; Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians; 1900-1962; Biography; Blackface entertainers; Miller, Emmett,
First sentence: Many years ago, I wrote a book called Country.
Description: "A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this narrative. For twenty years, Nick Tosches searched for facts about the life of Emmett Miller, a yodeling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues, and much of the popular music of the twentieth century.".

"Beginning with a handful of 78-rpm records and ending at a tombstone in a Macon, Georgia, graveyard, Tosches pieces together a life - and illuminates the spirit of music-makers from Cab Calloway to Bob Dylan, from Homer to the Rolling Stones."--BOOK JACKET.