Elijah Wald – Writer, Musician

Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though Riding with Strangers is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also about my CD, Street Corner Cowboys, and other writing and album projects, including an instructional DVD on the Bahamian guitar style of Joseph Spence and homemade CDs of blues, African acoustic guitar, and the Bahamian Blind Blake. There is a page of biographical information, various blues-related pages, pages on contemporary topical corridos, corrido censorship, and interviews with corridistas, appreciations of my father and the Japanese singer Mikami Kan, an archive with several dozen newspaper and magazine pieces on world and roots music among other topics, and whatever else seemed worth putting up here... Including a page about my misleadingly-titled history of American popular music, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll, with links to relevant music, videos and vintage radio shows.

 

Books:

Josh White: Society Blues Narcocorrido Escaping the Delta beatles Dave Van Ronk
  Josh White:
Society Blues
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson
and the Invention of the Blues
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll:
An Alternative History of American Popular Music
Dave Van Ronk:
The Mayor of MacDougal Street

 

More Books and a Bio:

Riding with Strangers Global Minstrels oxford intro to blues River of Song Bio
Riding With Strangers:
A Hitchhiker's Journey
Global Minstrels:
Voices of World Music
The Blues:
A Very Short Introduction
Other books and
and writing
Elijah Wald Bio

(página en español)

 

CDs and a DVD:

Streetcorner Cowboys Joseph Spence Blues CDs African CDs Blind Blake CD
My CD and
other album project
s
Joseph Spence Instructional DVD Unique Blues CDs: Ida Cox, Leroy Carr, Pop-Blues African Acoustic
Guitar CDs
Bahamian Blind Blake CD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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