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Elijah Wald (born 1959) is an American folk blues guitarist and music historian. He is a 2002 Grammy Award winner for his liner notes to ''The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box: "The Journey of Chris Strachwitz"''.〔Judith McCulloh, (Society for American Music 2004 Honorary Member Chris Strachwitz ), Society for American Music, updated April 24, 2007. Accessed online 2009-10-01.〕 ==Life== Wald was born in 1959 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.〔(Elijah Wald ), P.O.V. Borders – Border Talk, PBS, 2002. Accessed online 2009-10-01.〕 His parents were George Wald (co-recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and biologist Ruth Hubbard,〔John E. Dowling, "(George Wald, 1906–1997: A Biographical Memoir )" in ''Biographical Memoirs'', Washington, D.C.: The National Academy Press (National Academy of Sciences), Volume 78, 298:317. p. 313. Accessed online 2009-10-01.〕 with whom Elijah co-authored ''Exploding the Gene Myth''.〔Kirkus Associates' 1993 review of ''Exploding the Gene Myth'', quoted at (Amazon.com's page on that book ). Accessed online 2009-10-01.〕 At age 18, Wald departed for Europe to try to make a living as a folk-blues guitarist. For approximately the next 12 years, he traveled the world. He fronted a blues band in Seville, Spain, a swing trio in Antwerp, Belgium, and a rock band in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and studied with Congolese guitarist Jean-Bosco Mwenda. Returning to the United States, he played in "low dives and honky-tonks", and recorded two albums: the LP ''Songster, Fingerpicker, Shirtmaker''〔 on his and Bill Morrissey's short-lived label Reckless Records〔(Elijah Wald – Music and Albums ), on Wald's official web site. Accessed online 2009-10-01.〕 and the CD ''Street Corner Cowboys'' (Black Rose Records, 2000).〔 He also arranged and played guitar on one track of Dave Van Ronk's album of Bertolt Brecht songs, and performed as a sideman with Eric Von Schmidt and for several years with the legendary black string band leader Howard Armstrong. For many years he wrote for the ''Boston Globe'' on "roots music" and "world music"; he also wrote on American and international music for various magazines.〔 In 2000, he was one of many freelancers who left the ''Globe'' in a dispute over reprint rights.〔( Elijah Wald – Biography ), on Wald's official web site. Accessed online 2009-10-01.〕 By the time he and the ''Globe'' parted ways, he was already becoming an increasingly established writer. He had been a major collaborator in the Smithsonian Institution's multimedia ''River of Song'' project, a survey of contemporary music along the Mississippi River, and had just finished ''Josh White: Society Blues'', a biography of the folk-blues singer Josh White.〔 Since 2000, he has written numerous books; several of them had CDs as companion pieces. His subject matter has included Mexican ''corridos'' and ''narcocorridos'', hitchhiking, the blues musician Robert Johnson and, in ''How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll'', American popular music for roughly the first three-quarters of the 20th century. He co-authored Dave Van Ronk's posthumously published memoir, ''The Mayor of MacDougal Street'' (the main inspiration for the Coen Brothers movie ''Inside Llewyn Davis'') wrote the Grammy-winning liner notes for ''The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box: "The Journey of Chris Strachwitz"'', did an instructional DVD for guitarists on the music of Joseph Spence (part of a series issued by Stefan Grossman), and has curated and/or written liner notes for numerous CD compilations and re-releases. After teaching on and off in the musicology department of the University of California Los Angeles for several years, he currently resides in the Boston Area. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elijah Wald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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