3 volumes : illustrations, music, portraits ; 27 cm
Contents
v. 1. The singers and the styles from Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas up to the Second World War, with a brief consideration of some of the traceable relationships between the blues and African song -- v. 2. The Atlantic coast, Memphis and the Tennessee singers , St. Louis and Arkansas, urban blues Chicago before 1942 -- v. 3. Post war blues in Chicago and Detroit, California and Texas post war styles, women singers in country style, folk blues artists