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The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music
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Allan Moore |
From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century culture. The styles in which they sang have p… |
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Creating jazz counterpoint
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Vic Hobson |
A full study of Buddy Bolden and Bunk Johnson confirming their roles in the real blues roots of New Orleans jazz. |
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Early blues
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Jas Obrecht |
"Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally kno… |
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Stomping the blues
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Albert Murray |
An impressionistic analysis of blues and jazz, although jazz is never mentioned except in titles. The analysis runs through history, motivation, and outcome, along with strong declarations about wha… |
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Thriving on a riff
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David Murray - undifferentiated,Graham Lock |
This text explores the influence of jazz and blues in two key areas of cultural expression, literature and film, where these musics have often been inextricably linked with notions of racial identity… |
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Texas blues
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Alan B. Govenar |
"Beginning in East Texas and journeying to the hot, dusty streets of Dakar, Senegal, Govenar traces the earliest roots of the music that became known as blues in the 1890s. Through a critical examina… |
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In search of the blues
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Marybeth Hamilton |
A revisionist account which claims that, archaic and primeval though the music may sound, “Delta blues” emerged in the late twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with… |
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The Devil's music
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Giles Oakley |
Anecdotes, reminiscences, first-hand reports, and appreciative commentary combine to provide a celebratory account of the blues' development from turn-of-the-century New Orleans honky-tonk and Missis… |
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The Memphis blues again
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Ernest C. Withers |
"Through the photographs of Ernest C. Withers we travel the decades down Beale Street, the main street of the Memphis music scene, and find ourselves on a journey into the heart and soul of America. … |
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Inside the Blues, 1942-1982
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Dave Rubin |
171 p. : 31 cm |
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