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Your search for: blues AND history


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Books on: blues history

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Journal Articles on: blues history

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Magazine Articles on: blues history

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Encyclopedia Articles on: blues history

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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...appears to originate in A General History of Connecticut (London, 1781...sumptuary laws , the term "blue laws" is usually applied only...after the American Revolution, blue laws declined; many of them...
     
  • Parrish, Maxfield
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia. His glowing colors, especially the blues, are characteristic. He illustrated Washington Irvings "Knickerbocker" History of New York, Eugene Fields Poems of Childhood, The Arabian Nights, Kenneth...
     
  • Baraka, Amiri
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...and Eulogies (1996); among his many plays are The Motion of History and Other Plays (1978) and Election-Machine Warehouse (1996); his volumes of essays include Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963, repr. 1980) and Daggers...
     
  • Gretzky, Wayne
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1978 88), Los Angeles Kings (1988 96), St. Louis Blues (1996), and New York Rangers (1997 99). Gretzky is considered the most influential player in professional hockey history; when he retired, he held or shared 61 National Hockey...
     
  • Rock Music
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...audiences could understand. Blues, and rhythm and blues, were too adult, sexual...and Carl Perkins ("Blue Suede Shoes"). The Late...music derived from the black blues tradition. These British bands...1967 the Beatles again made history with their album Sgt. Peppers...
     

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