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9780714530567

The Day Is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island

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  • ISBN13:

    9780714530567

  • ISBN10:

    0714530565

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-07-01
  • Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Summary

The search for a song from an island on the "wrong side of the wind."

Author Biography

Samuel Charters, the eminent historian of jazz and blues music, is the author of the award-winning The Roots of the Blues, The Legacy of the Blues, Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn and the novel Louisiana Black, filmed under the title White Lies

Table of Contents

List Of Illustrations
8(11)
A Different Kind Of Music
11(7)
An Island The Wrong Side Of The Wind
18(15)
The Problem With Fishing Boats
33(14)
An Island House
47(11)
Night Voices
58(14)
Opinions About Sharks
72(14)
Spence
86(9)
Sharks Again
95(11)
Gal, You Want To Go Back To Scambo
106(11)
A Walk On The Beach
117(15)
The Pleasures Of Sailing
132(14)
The Day Is So Long And The Wages So Small
146(10)
McQueen
156(10)
Last Long Summer Days
166(7)
Appendix 173

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