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    Blues Fell This Morning: The Meaning of the Blues » Read Now

    by Paul Oliver. 355 pgs.

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    ...portables. This was their music, the blues of their own race, and families...perplexity as to the nature of the blues. But within the music itself there is room...
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    Africa and the Blues » Read Now

    by Gerhard Kubik. 240 pgs.

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    A narrative that explores the African genealogy of American.
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    Sounds So Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story » Read Now

    by Barry Lee Pearson. 175 pgs.

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    ...point in my life I loved blues music. It had a special sound...trends in black popular music. Fewer clubs hired blues bands, but the blues musicians...later years most...
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    Blues People: Negro Music in White America » Read Now

    by LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka. 244 pgs.

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    ...Blues People Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones...permission to quote from "Married Woman Blues," words and music by Joe Turner and White Keys...contains constant...
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    Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations » Read Now

    by Brian Ward. 600 pgs.

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    In one of the most innovative and ambitious books to appear on civil rights and black power movements in America, the author examines the relationship between rhythm and blues music and the struggle for black freedom and equality from the 50s to the 70s.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music » Read Now

    by Allan Moore. 208 pgs.

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    From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists play significant roles in twentieth-century culture. This overview of these genres provides an expression of the twentieth-century black American experience. Histories are questioned; songs and...
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    The Poetry of the Blues (1963) » Read Now

    by Samuel Charters. 112 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...blues and if we can play music and play the blues we may play the blues...anything except church music. The preoccupations of the blues; love, sexuality, personal...in the...
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    Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt » Read Now

    by Carlo Rotella. 269 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    "This is a brilliant study, warm and frequently thrilling, of an inspired combination of subjects. Postindustrial American urban culture has found its great poet-theorist in Carlo Rotella."--William Finnegan, author of "Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country"

    "In the hands of others, we have...

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    Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music (Part Three "The Blues") » Read Now

    by Peter Van der Merwe. 352 pgs.

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    Here, for the first time, is a book which analyses popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical, or political point of view. Peter van der Merwe has made an extensive survey of Western popular music in all its forms - blues, ragtime, music hall, waltzes, marches, parlour...
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    Rhythm and Resistance: Explorations in the Political Uses of Popular Music (Chap. 4 "The Blues: America's National Song Form") » Read Now

    by Ray Pratt. 246 pgs.

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    Beginning with the spirituals of the slaves and the gospel of the black church and continuing through the blues, jazz forms, country, folk, and rock, Rhythm and Resistance presents popular music as part of a continuing effort, over two centuries, to create community values and identity in the face...
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    The Jazz Cadence of American Culture » Read Now

    by Robert G. O'Meally. 665 pgs.

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    Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B. B. King » Read Now

    by Sebastian Danchin. 164 pgs.

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    A richly detailed & balanced portrait of the "King of the Blues."
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    The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards » Read Now

    by Honeyboy Edwards, Janis Martinson, Michael Robert Frank. 290 pgs.

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    This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs...
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    Virginia Piedmont Blues: The Lives and Art of Two Virginia Bluesmen » Read Now

    by Barry Lee Pearson. 291 pgs.

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    ...ballads, ragtime, country, pre-blues dance music, and even marginal rock and...reels, hollers, and work songs, blues music is a twentieth-century form...other types of...
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    Blues: The Basics » Read Now

    by Dick Weissman. 206 pgs.

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    Blues: The Basicsgives a brief introduction to a century of the blues, ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical style.The book is organized chronologically, focusing on the major eras in blues' growth and development. Each chapter includes a...
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    Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues » Read Now

    by Steve Cheseborough. 244 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Updated and expanded, this indispensable guidebook maps out the blues birthplaces, juke joints and crossroads of the Mississippi Delta.

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