David Evans (musicologist)
- David Evans (musicologist)
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David Evans is a musicologist and director of the Ethnomusicology/Regional Studies program at the University of Memphis.[1]
He has written or edited a number of books on the blues, and also performs. He won a Grammy in 2003 for "Best Album Notes" for the CD Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - The Worlds Of Charley Patton. [2]
Published work
- Tommy Johnson (London: Studio Vista, 1971)
- Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982)
- The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to the Blues (New York: Perigee, 2005)
Further reading
- "Evans, David" (bio), entry by Jack Cooper. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, Anand Prahlad (author/editor) Vol. I, A-F (Greenwood Press, 2005) ISBN 0313330360
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