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Books on: american blues

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Blues: The Basics

Book by Dick Weissman; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Blues (Music)--History And Criticism

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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: 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 timeline relating significant social and historical events to developments in the blues. The book concludes with lists of key recordings, books, and videos.Blues: The Basics serves as an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make blues an enduring and well-loved musical style.
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Africa and the Blues

Book by Gerhard Kubik; University Press of Mississippi, 1999

Subjects:

Blacks--Africa--Music--History And Criticism, Blues (Music)--African Influences, Music--Africa--History And Criticism

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...offspring. In 1977 I visited American blues researcher David Evans in California...of the blues, but that the American blues were a logical development...Is the 12-bar AAB form of the blues an African-American invention, or can it be found...
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The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music

Book by Allan Moore; Cambridge University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Blues (Music)--History And Criticism, Gospel Music--History And Criticism

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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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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 lyrical imagery are analyzed; perspectives are presented from the standpoint of voice, guitar, piano, and working musician. A concluding chapter discusses the impact that the genres have had on mainstream musical culture.
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Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations

Book by Brian Ward; UCL Press, 1998

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil Rights, African Americans--Music--History And Criticism, Music And Race, Popular Music--United States--History And Criticism, Rhythm And Blues Music--History And Criticism

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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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Africa and the Blues

Book by Gerhard Kubik; University Press of Mississippi, 1999

Subjects:

Blacks--Africa--Music--History And Criticism, Blues (Music)--African Influences, Music--Africa--History And Criticism

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A narrative that explores the African genealogy of American.

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Journal Articles on: american blues

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The Three Doc(k)s: White Blues in Appalachia

Journal article by William E. Lightfoot; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 23, 2003

Subjects:

African American music--Criticism and interpretation, African American music--Influence, African American music--Social aspects, African Americans--Criticism and interpretation, African Americans--Influence, African Americans--Music, African Americans--Social aspects, Blues (Music)--Criticism and interpretation, Blues (Music)--Social aspects

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...exploration of the influence of African-American blues on Appalachian white blues should...Niles believed that in African-American blues, "it is the gaiety that is feigned...Charley Lincoln. But an African-American source, blues tropes, and a kind of three-line...
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Signifying the Blues

Journal article by Robert Switzer; Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2001

Subjects:

Blues (Music)--Criticism and interpretation, Heidegger, Martin--Criticism and interpretation, Literary themes, Poetry--Themes, motives, Poets--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...musical heart of African-American culture, the blues." Davis names two "notable...stanza, though many African-American poets "go beneath blues forms and overt blues themes...soul" at play in African-American music. The blues, I want to argue, is all...
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Musical Innovation in the Blues of Blind Lemon Jefferson

Journal article by David Evans; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 20, 2000

Subjects:

Blues (Music)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jefferson, Blind Lemon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...spectacular reception by African-American record buyers. His commercial success...hundreds of other guitar-playing blues singers, male and female, black...the commercial ascendancy of the blues. American Music 14, no. 4: 402-454. Alyn...
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Blues in the Round

Journal article by Edward Komura; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 17, 1997

Subjects:

Blues (Music)--History, Blues musicians--History, House, Son--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Patton, Charlie--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...to aim for African-American markets with its...stars, but Texas blues performer Blind Lemon...disaster captured in blues, the 1927 Mississippi...drought. However, the American Red Cross (1931...Washington, D.C.: American Red Cross. Anonymous...The Mississippi blues: 1927-1940. Origin...
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The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye

Journal article by Cat Moses; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

Subjects:

African American women--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Blues (Music)--Influence, Morrison, Toni--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Bluest Eye (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...desire expressed in African American wome ns blues lyrics is a "camouflaged...expression in America" in Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature (11). Giles...Baker, Houston A., Jr. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular...

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Magazine Articles on: american blues

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Blues with an Altitude

Magazine article by Mike Ceaser; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 53, July 2001

Subjects:

Blues (Music)--Bolivia, Blues musicians--Evaluation, Bolivia--Music, Parodi, Pedro--Evaluation

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...Altitude by Mike Ceaser AMERICAN BLUES is traditionally considered southern...who has spent his life bringing blues rhythms to the land of the Southern...who now lives and hosts a radio blues show in La Paz, Bolivia, was first...
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Blues Elixir

Magazine article by Chris Jones; American Theatre, Vol. 14, January 1997

Subjects:

Blues (Music)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Dramatists--Works, Glover, Keith--Works, Thunder Knocking on the Door (Theater)--Production and direction

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...re-comprehend and claim the pure blues form as the source of their cultural...clearly southern and African-American, Glovers enigmatic, elliptical...many colors and emotions to the blues. And African Americans are used to living life on very...
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Are Whites Taking or Are Blacks Giving Away the Blues?

Magazine article by Joy Bennett Kinnon; Ebony, Vol. 52, September 1997

Subjects:

African Americans--Music, Anglo-Americans--Recreational aspects, Blues (Music)--Appreciation

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...tickets. And some blues legends are sounding...warning Black Americans to reclaim their...the only major blues festival produced by an African-American non-profit community...Fortunately for the blues and fortunately for American culture, there...
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Been and Gone: Gets the Blues Watching Scorsese's Requiem for a Lost Musical Form

Magazine article by Richard Cook; New Statesman, Vol. 133, May 31, 2004

Subjects:

The Blues (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, Video recordings--Video recording reviews

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...the beginning, blues was hidden, almost...secreted a way from American histories. Most...there are no black Americans, only blacks in...suggests that the blues is a direct African survival. But blues is what it is: a specific, American idiom. Pattons...
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The House of Blues Foundation

Magazine article; American Visions, Vol. 13, June 1998

Subjects:

House of Blues Entertainment Inc.--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...an appreciation of the music, art and history of the blues and of the culture that spawned this authentic American art form. From Blues Schoolhouse (three days a week, House of Blues clubs are open as multimedia classrooms and folk art museums...

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Newspaper Articles on: american blues

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Football: BLUES NOT BIG NEWS IN UTAH; Everton Can't Win Battle against Travelling, Temperature and Perhaps Most Tellingly Indiffe BLUES CHASE THE AMERICAN DREAM

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 23, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Tellingly Indiffe BLUES CHASE THE AMERICAN DREAM. Byline...currently prop up, the Blues just couldnt lift...so vital to the American adventure of a year...look just that. The Blues were second best...performance came from an American. As the star attraction...
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Football: American Break Can Once Again Inspire the Blues; fanSCENE EVERTON

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 24, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Football: American Break Can Once Again Inspire the Blues; fanSCENE EVERTON. Byline: MARK OBRIEN YOU never know what a trip abroad will do for Everton. They came back from the Far...
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Transatlantic Talent Fits the Bill at Blues Festival; Curtain Call

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 18, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...appearances from seven top American blues bands. Dragon Blues The...West Chicagos Lil Ed and The Blues Imperials who have achieved pan American fame over the past 30 years...performance. Another member of American blues royalty to be making her...
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Three Cheesy Guitars and Danish Blues; the London-Based Star Otis Grand Talks to Martin Longley

Newspaper article by Martin Langley; The Birmingham Post (England), December 10, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...features numbers from all three of Grands 90s albums. The next one has the tentative title Otis Grand Plays Classic American Blues Instrumentals, featuring tunes by the likes of T-Bone Walker and Freddie King. n Otis Grand plays at The Robin 2...
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Homage to Days of Good Blues: John Mayall Lets the Music Tell How It Used to Be

Newspaper article by Sam Ryan; The Washington Times, May 1, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...London blues were being born." It was during those late hours that a few English musicians began a love affair with American blues that turned into an international phenomenon. "It was really a very exciting time," Mr. Mayall recalls with a slight...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american blues

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Johnson, Robert

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...JOHNSON, ROBERT 1911 38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter...Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture (2004), and E. Wald...Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (2004...
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Waters, Muddy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

WATERS, MUDDY 1915 83, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. Rolling Fork, Miss...and played various music festivals. His electric blues influenced such American musicians as Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan...
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King, B. B

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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...
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Hooker, John Lee

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

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

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

HOWLIN WOLF 1910 76, African-American blues singer and composer, b. White Station...Chester Arthur Burnett. Exposed to blues performers from childhood, he sang...of the traditional acoustic Delta blues into the amplified, contemporary...

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