Been Here and Gone
Title Details
Pages: 192
Illustrations: 205 b&w photos
Trim size: 6.120in x 9.250in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 03/29/2000
ISBN: 9-780-8203-2195-0
List Price: $25.95
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This volume documents Frederic Ramsey Jr.’s journeys through the 1950s South, where he traveled in search of what might still remain of an original, authentic African American musical tradition.
In these photographs, songs, interviews, and narratives, Ramsey portrays farmers, railroad workers, housewives, children, church congregations, and country brass bands from Saratoga, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana. Ramsey’s images of a past way of life capture the deceptively poor landscapes and lives that gave birth to and sustained some of our warmest and most deeply felt music.
A journey of profound love and a terrible urgency . . . an altogether lovely and loving book.
—Studs Terkel, Chicago Times
A vividly human documentary.
—Los Angeles Times
Strikingly honest and simple . . . Penetrate[s] into the heart of the blues.
—Nat Hentoff, Esquire