{"product_id":"0097278003703","title":"Annapolis Book of Seamanship, Vol. 1: Cruising Under Sail","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins with America’s first great social critic, Henry David Thoreau, and his fundamental source of social philosophy:—his profound commitment to freedom, to abolitionism and to African-American culture. Continuing with Mark Twain, through whom we can observe the rise of minstrelsy, which he embraced, and his subversive satirical masterpiece Huckleberry Finn. While familiar, the book places them into a newly articulated historical reference that shines new light and reveals a progression that is much greater than the sum of its individual parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the first post-Civil War generation of black Americans came of age, they introduced into the national culture a trio of musical forms—ragtime, blues, and jazz— that would, with their derivations, dominate popular music to this day. Ragtime introduced syncopation and become the cutting edge of the modern 20th century with popular dances. The blues would combine with syncopation and improvisation and create jazz. Maturing at the hands of Louis Armstrong, it would soon attract a cluster of young white musicians who came to be known as the Austin High Gang, who fell in love with black music and were inspired to play it themselves. In the process, they developed a liberating respect for the diversity of their city and country, which they did not see as exotic, but rather as art. It was not long before these young white rebels were the masters of American pop music – big band Swing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Bop succeeded Swing, and Rhythm and Blues followed, each had white followers like the Beat writers and the first young rock and rollers. Even popular white genres like the country music of Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter Family reflected significant black influence. In fact, the theoretical separation of American music by race is not accurate. This biracial fusion achieved an apotheosis in the early work of Bob Dylan, born and raised at the northern end of the same Mississippi River and Highway 61 that had been the birthplace of much of the black music he would study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the book reveals, the connection that began with Thoreau and continued for over 100 years was a cultural evolution where, at first individuals, and then larger portions of society, absorbed the culture of those at the absolute bottom of the power structure, the slaves and their descendants, and realized that they themselves were not free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusicians mentioned in the book are as follows:\u003cbr\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003cbr\u003eMark Twain\u003cbr\u003eMinstrel Shows\u003cbr\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003cbr\u003eFisk Jubilee Singers\u003cbr\u003eScott Joplin\u003cbr\u003eW.C. 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Du Bois\u003cbr\u003eJack Johnson\u003cbr\u003eRobert Johnson\u003cbr\u003eOriginal Dixieland Jazz Band\u003cbr\u003eHoagy Carmichael\u003cbr\u003eBix Beiderbecke\u003cbr\u003eMezz Mezzrow\u003cbr\u003eAustin High Gang\u003cbr\u003ePaul Whiteman\u003cbr\u003eCarl Van Vechten\u003cbr\u003eZora Neale Hurston\u003cbr\u003eLangston Hughes\u003cbr\u003eDuke Ellington\u003cbr\u003eCount Basie\u003cbr\u003eBenny Goodman\u003cbr\u003eThomas Dorsey\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hammond\u003cbr\u003eJohn Lomax\u003cbr\u003eAlan Lomax\u003cbr\u003eLead Belly\u003cbr\u003eJimmie Rodgers\u003cbr\u003eWoody Guthrie\u003cbr\u003eMississippi John Hurt\u003cbr\u003eCharlie Parker\u003cbr\u003eDizzy Gillespie\u003cbr\u003eWillie “The Lion” Smith\u003cbr\u003eLouis Jordan\u003cbr\u003eMuddy Waters\u003cbr\u003eHowlin Wolf\u003cbr\u003eWillie Dixon\u003cbr\u003eJohn Lee Hooker\u003cbr\u003eThelonious Monk\u003cbr\u003eJohn Coltrane\u003cbr\u003eMiles Davis\u003cbr\u003eJack Kerouac\u003cbr\u003ePete Seeger\u003cbr\u003eBill Haley\u003cbr\u003eElvis Presley\u003cbr\u003eChuck Berry\u003cbr\u003eRay Charles\u003cbr\u003eLavern Baker\u003cbr\u003eAhmet Ertegun\u003cbr\u003eJerry Wexler\u003cbr\u003eBob Dylan\u003cbr\u003eJoan Baez\u003cbr\u003ePaul Butterfield\u003cbr\u003eMike Bloomfield\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Molly Prude","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47086155825392,"sku":"0097278003703","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0097278003703","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}