Background
Adam was born on April 3, 1958, in New York, United States. His parents were Alan (an artist and environmentalist) and Joan (a nutrition educator; maiden name, Dye) Gussow.
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Adam studied at Princeton University and received a Bachelor of Arts (English; magna cum laude) in 1979.
116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
He studied at Columbia University and received a Master of Arts in 1983.
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(Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing new account of ...)
Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and hard times, the blues emerge in this provocative study as vital responses to spectacle lynchings and the violent realities of African American life in the Jim Crow South.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226310973/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Mister Satan’s Apprentice is the history of one of music’...)
Mister Satan’s Apprentice is the history of one of music’s most fascinating collaborations, between Adam Gussow, a young graduate school dropout and harmonica player, and Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, a guitarist and underground blues legend who had originally made his name as "Five Fingers Magee."
https://www.amazon.com/Mister-Satans-Apprentice-Blues-Memoir-ebook/dp/B004LB49BK/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(From award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow...)
From award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow, a taut, sexy first novel about the summer busking scene in Europe and a pair of wild-hearted young men who make a pitch for fame and glory, finding a girl or two along the way.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016CTLC7C/?tag=2022091-20
2015
Adam was born on April 3, 1958, in New York, United States. His parents were Alan (an artist and environmentalist) and Joan (a nutrition educator; maiden name, Dye) Gussow.
Adam studied at Princeton University and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1979. He also studied at Columbia University and received a Master of Arts in 1983. Later, he finished Princeton University with Ph.D.
In 1988 began to work as blues harmonica instructor at Guitar Study Center, New York, United States. During ten years he took a position of a lecturer at Princeton University, Princeton. From 1999 he worked at The New School in New York.
His first writing was Mister Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (1998). “Throughout this memoir, there is mainly love for his mentor, Mister Satan; yet there is hardly rage about being cast out from this community while Gussow himself is its fondest champion,” wrote P. J. Rondinone in American Book Review.
Gussow's other musical credits include five months with the bus-and-truck tour of Big River; commercials for Coca-Cola, Nestea, and Swatch; and two decades as a harmonica instructor at the Guitar Study Center in New York and Jon Gindick's harmonica jam camps.
Since uploading his first video on February 22, 2007, Gussow has been running YouTube tutorials aimed at passing on his proficiency and knowledge in the harmonica to those who are interested in learning to play blues harmonica.
In August 2010, Gussow released his first album under his own name, Kick And Stomp. In 2010, 2011 & 2012, Gussow (along with business partner & entrepreneur Jeff Silverman) organized and produced Hill Country Harmonica, a teaching-intensive event at Foxfire Ranch in Waterford, Mississippi with an evening concert component.
(From award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow...)
2015(Mister Satan’s Apprentice is the history of one of music’...)
2009(Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing new account of ...)
2002Adam has characterized his religious views as “Agnostic half-Jew.”
Adam Gussow is a liberal with occasional left and centrist leanings.
Adam is a member of Modem Language Association, American Studies Association.