No Depression

by Alden, Grant

• ISBN13: 9780292719309
• ISBN10: 0292719302
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

For most of its thirteen-year history as a beloved and decorated music magazine,No Depressionsought to be an instrument of change: To draw attention to The deep well of American musical traditions; to shine a light on performers whose gifts far exceed the size of their audiences or their pocketbooks; and to provide a safe harbor for The best long-form writing about music on the newsstand. These traditions continue throughNo Depression_s now semi-annual series of bookazines. The inaugural bookazine, numbered ND #76 so as to make explicit the continuity betweenNo Depression_s original and new formats, focused on the next generation of emerging roots music performers. ND #78, due out the fall of 2009, will focus on prominent families in American roots music, kinfolk who have stretched their artistic influence across generations. This will include in-depth pieces about bedrock clans of country music_the Carters and The Cashes_and folk music_the Guthries and The Seegers; profiles of country mavericks Steve and Justin Townes Earle and of jazz great Charlie Haden and his musically adventurous children; plus a more _metaphorical family_ piece on the artistic _sons_ of bluesman Rev. Gary Davis. The magazine_s cofounders and coeditors, Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, continue to guide the bookazine. The magazine_s senior writers and contributors remain on board to shape the tone and voice of the bookazine, and its distinctive graphic design imprint continues in the hands of ND art director Grant Alden.