Paul Oliver

Paul Oliver ( born May 25, 1927 in Nottingham ) is a at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development acting English explorer who is known both as an architectural theorist and as a musicologist.

As for his work in the field of architecture, it is mainly emerged with his argument that in the future the Vernacular architecture ( in German with " regional architecture" inadequately translated) should play a greater role in economic, both for cultural as well as from reasons to ensure the sustainability of construction. He has 1997, the three-volume, 2500 pages comprising Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World released, includes contributions from researchers from 80 countries. He is currently working on a World Atlas of Vernacular Architecture.

Are very influential beyond his research on the blues, especially his publications on American traditional music, which aroused worldwide interest in this style of music and maintained over decades (comparable in its effect, it was nevertheless are next to it probably only the works of Samuel Charters ). Conversation with the Blues was recorded in 1991 in the Blues Hall of Fame ( Classics of Blues Literature), as well as Blues fell this morning: the meaning of the blues in 1988 and The Story of the Blues 1987.

Bibliography

For architectural themes:

  • Paul Oliver: Shelter and society. London, 1969.
  • Paul Oliver: Dunroamin: the suburban semi and its enemies. Barrie & Jenkins, London 1981.
  • Paul Oliver: Dwellings: the house across the world. Phaidon, Oxford 1987.

For music themes:

  • Paul Oliver: Bessie Smith. Cassell, London 1959.
  • Paul Oliver: Blues fell this morning: the meaning of the blues. Cassell, London 1960, ISBN 3-85445-065-6.
  • Paul Oliver: Conversation with the blues. Cassell, London 1965, ISBN 3-85445-065-6.
  • Paul Oliver: Screening the blues: aspects of the blues tradition. Cassell, London 1968, ISBN 0-304-93137-3.
  • Paul Oliver: The story of the blues. Barrie & Jenkins, London 1969, ISBN 3-85445-092-3.
  • Paul Oliver: Savannah Syncopators: African retention in the blues. Studio Vista, 1970, ISBN 0-289-79828-0.
  • Paul Oliver: Songsters and saints: vocal traditions on race records. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1984, ISBN 0-521-24827-2.
  • Paul Oliver: Blues off the record: thirty years of blues commentary. Baton Press, Tunbridge Wells 1984, ISBN 0-306-80321-6.
  • Paul Oliver: Conversation with the blues. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-59181-3.
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