{"id":723,"date":"2006-11-22T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=723"},"modified":"2006-11-22T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T09:01:00","slug":"book_6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/11\/book_6\/","title":{"rendered":"Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debra DeSalvo, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLanguage-Blues-Alcorub-Zuzu%2Fdp%2F0823083896%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1164182022%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">The Language of the Blues<\/a> <\/em>(Billboard Books). From &#8220;Alcorub&#8221; to &#8220;Zuzu,&#8221; Ms. DeSalvo combines solid research with humor, insight and straightforward description to explain the often arcane terms that populate blues songs. You may have an idea about the various meanings of &#8220;easy rider,&#8221; but how about &#8220;faro,&#8221; &#8220;biscuit,&#8221; &#8220;cooling board?&#8221; &#8220;Mojo&#8221; gets two full pages. The book is more than a dictionary; it&#8217;s a lesson in the Southern black culture that took root in rural blues and spread throughout the world. That&#8217;s no woofin&#8217; (page 158).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debra DeSalvo, The Language of the Blues (Billboard Books). From &#8220;Alcorub&#8221; to &#8220;Zuzu,&#8221; Ms. DeSalvo combines solid research with humor, insight and straightforward description to explain the often arcane terms that populate blues songs. You may have an idea about the various meanings of &#8220;easy rider,&#8221; but how about &#8220;faro,&#8221; &#8220;biscuit,&#8221; &#8220;cooling board?&#8221; &#8220;Mojo&#8221; gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}