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This is a book to acquire and savor.--Chris Smith Blues and Rhythm A tremendously compelling book. . . This is a study of life, real life, in a pivotal place and a crucial time, with two bright and intrepid young scholars taking copious notes along the way.--David Wesley Williams Chapter 16 The core of the book is an evocative tour through the lives of blues and gospel singers, with a level of detail and attention to both the music and their lives rivaling any blues study before or since.--Alex Greene Memphis Flyer This is a monumental work that plunges the reader into the sixties through the blues culture of the Deep South. It is a deeply American tale of discovery, sadness, and celebration that truly touches the heart.--William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues If I told y'all everything I like about this book, it'd be too many pages long, so just let me say that if you love blues like I do, this is a joy to read, and every page is fascinating. I highly recommend it.--Charlie Musselwhite, Grammy Award-winning blues harp player Marina Bokelman and David Evans share their highly personal perspectives regarding their fieldwork into the downhome blues traditions found largely in rural Louisiana and Mississippi during the summers of 1966 and 1967 in Going Up the Country. Their engaging call and response reveal a great deal not only about the nature and importance of their months-long odysseys, but also about their musical, academic, and personal lives before and after their experiences. Going Up the Country is an intimate, detailed, and truly singular account that has been a long time coming.--Kip Lornell, professor at George Washington University and author of eighteen books on American vernacular music In Going Up the Country, Evans and Bokelman offer a vivid snapshot of an era of ethnographic fieldwork with its own assumptions, procedures, vocabulary, etiquette, sensitivities, and blind spots. Anyone who fell in love with blues music in the 1960s or who recognizes its enduring importance today will find this book an honest, sometimes painful, sometimes funny opportunity to ride along.--Erika Brady, professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University

If I told y'all everything I like about this book, it'd be too many pages long, so just let me say that if you love blues like I do, this is a joy to read, and every page is fascinating. I highly recommend it.--Charlie Musselwhite, Grammy Award-winning blues harp player In Going Up the Country, Evans and Bokelman offer a vivid snapshot of an era of ethnographic fieldwork with its own assumptions, procedures, vocabulary, etiquette, sensitivities, and blind spots. Anyone who fell in love with blues music in the 1960s or who recognizes its enduring importance today will find this book an honest, sometimes painful, sometimes funny opportunity to ride along.--Erika Brady, professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University Marina Bokelman and David Evans share their highly personal perspectives regarding their fieldwork into the downhome blues traditions found largely in rural Louisiana and Mississippi during the summers of 1966 and 1967 in Going up the Country. Their engaging call and response reveal a great deal not only about the nature and importance of their months-long odysseys, but also about their musical, academic, and personal lives before and after their experiences. Going Up the Country is an intimate, detailed and truly singular account that has been a long time coming.--Kip Lornell, professor at George Washington University and author of eighteen books on American vernacular music

This is a monumental work that plunges the reader into the sixties through the blues culture of the Deep South. It is a deeply American tale of discovery, sadness, and celebration that truly touches the heart.--William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues If I told y'all everything I like about this book, it'd be too many pages long, so just let me say that if you love blues like I do, this is a joy to read, and every page is fascinating. I highly recommend it.--Charlie Musselwhite, Grammy Award-winning blues harp player Marina Bokelman and David Evans share their highly personal perspectives regarding their fieldwork into the downhome blues traditions found largely in rural Louisiana and Mississippi during the summers of 1966 and 1967 in Going Up the Country. Their engaging call and response reveal a great deal not only about the nature and importance of their months-long odysseys, but also about their musical, academic, and personal lives before and after their experiences. Going Up the Country is an intimate, detailed, and truly singular account that has been a long time coming.--Kip Lornell, professor at George Washington University and author of eighteen books on American vernacular music In Going Up the Country, Evans and Bokelman offer a vivid snapshot of an era of ethnographic fieldwork with its own assumptions, procedures, vocabulary, etiquette, sensitivities, and blind spots. Anyone who fell in love with blues music in the 1960s or who recognizes its enduring importance today will find this book an honest, sometimes painful, sometimes funny opportunity to ride along.--Erika Brady, professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University

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Marina Bokelman has maintained a career as a practicing folklorist and a cappella ballad singer in her community in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. She received a grant from the California Arts Council to document the social and cultural life of that community and produced an educational folk music program for local community radio station KVMR. She is active in the healing arts and is a pipe carrier in the Native American tradition. David Evans is author of several books and other publications and productions on blues music and has received two Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes. His musical performance career has taken him to twenty-three countries and resulted in six CDs. Evans taught at California State University, Fullerton, and the University of Memphis, where he retired as professor of music emeritus.

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