Elijah Wald – Writer, Musician
Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though Riding with Strangers is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also my new blog exploring immigration, borders, and history in preparation for a book project. And a performance blog exploring my musical repertoire with background and commentary on hundreds of songs. Plus information about my CD, Street Corner Cowboys, and other writing and album projects, including an instructional DVD on the Bahamian guitar style of Joseph Spence. There are pages about various aspects of blues, corridos, and popular music, appreciations of my father and the Japanese singer Mikami Kan, an archive with several dozen newspaper and magazine pieces on world and roots music among other topics, and whatever else seemed worth putting up here... Including a page on The Mayor of MacDougal Street, the source of the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, one on my pop music history, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll, and one on The Dozens, the African American tradition of mother-insult-dueling, and its offshoots in American culture.

Ruth's passport
The Pursuit of Happiness: Immigration, Borders, and History blog

Songobiography:
an ongoing memoir and performance blog, with hundreds of songs

Josh White: Society Blues

 Narcocorrido Escaping the Delta beatles Dave Van Ronk
Josh White:
Society Blues		 Narcocorrido:
A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas

(página en español)

 Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson
and the Invention of the Blues		 How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll:
An Alternative History of American Popular Music		 Dave Van Ronk:
The Mayor of MacDougal Street
 Dylan Goes Electric!
Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties 		Talking 'Bout Your Mama:
The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap

(reprint of The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
oxford intro to blues Riding with Strangers Global Minstrels River of Song Streetcorner Cowboys Joseph Spence Bio
The Blues:
A Very Short Introduction 		Riding With Strangers:
A Hitchhiker's Journey		 Global Minstrels:
Voices of World Music		 Other books and
and writing		 My CD and
other album projects		 Joseph Spence Instructional DVD Elijah Wald Bio

(en español)
(en francais)

Contact Elijah
Contact Elijah

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