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Your search for: american AND blues


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Research Topics on: american blues

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Books on: american blues

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  • Blue Laws
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    BLUE LAWS legislation regulating public...Sabbatarian and sumptuary laws , the term "blue laws" is usually applied only to American legislation. With the dissolution of the Puritan theocracies after the American Revolution, blue laws declined...
     
  • Johnson, Robert
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...JOHNSON, ROBERT 1911 38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter...technique combined in a classic blues sound, plaintive and lonely. The...Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture (2004), and E. Wald...
     
  • Waters, Muddy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...WATERS, MUDDY 1915 83, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. Rolling...and playing traditional country blues on harmonica and guitar, and in...His electric blues influenced such American musicians as Elvis Presley and Bob...
     
  • King, B. B
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    KING, B. B. 1925 , African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola...Memphis. King came to prominence as a blues guitarist in 1952 with his chart-topping recording of "Three Oclock Blues." Known as the "Beale Street Blues...
     
  • Hooker, John Lee
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    HOOKER, JOHN LEE 1917 2001, American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Clarksdale...sharecropping family, he learned the blues from his stepfather and various visiting...first recording, the rhythm-and-blues hit "Boogie Chillun" in 1948...
     

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