Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: American Made Music Series
Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: American Made Music Series
ISBN: 978-1-4968-0511-9
Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
At the end of the 1960s, a series of thirteen blues paperbacks edited by Paul Oliver for the London publisher November Books began appearing. One manuscript landed on his desk that had been written in 1943 by a then twenty-three-year-old Amsterdammer Frank (Frans) Boom. Its publication, to which Oliver gave thetitle Laughing to Keep from Crying, was announced on the back jacket of the last three Blues Paperbacks in 1971 and 1972. Yet it never was published and the manuscript once more disappeared. In October 1996, Dutch blues expert and publicist Verbei went in search of the presumably lost manuscript and the story behindits author. It only took him a couple of months to track down the manuscript, but it took another ten years to glean the full story behind the extraordinary Frans Boom, who passed away in 1953 in Indonesia.