| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
African American music in global perspective |
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African American music in global perspective.
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| Contents |
Bourdon, blue notes, and pentatonism in the blues: an Africanist perspective / Gerhard Kubik -- "They cert'ly sound good to me": sheet music, Southern vaudeville, and the commercial ascendancy of the blues / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff -- Abbe Niles, blues advocate / Elliott S. Hurwitt -- The hands of blues guitarists / Andrew M. Cohen -- From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: nicknames of blues singers / David Evans -- Preachin' the blues: a textual linguistic analysis of Son House's "Dry spell blues" / Luigi Monge -- Some ramblings on Robert Johnson's mind: critical analysis and aesthetic value in Delta blues / James Bennighof -- "Guess these people wonder what I'm singing": quotation and reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis blues" / Katharine Cartwright -- Beyond the mushroom cloud: a decade of disillusion in black blues and gospel song / Bob Groom -- Houston creoles and zydeco: the emergence of an African American urban popular style / John Minton |
| Summary |
Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Soul & R 'n B.
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African Americans -- Music
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Blues (Music)
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Blues
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Blues.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Evans, David, 1944-
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| LC no. |
2019718421 |
| ISBN |
9780252091124 |
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0252091124 |
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1283251019 |
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9781283251013 |
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9786613251015 |
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6613251011 |
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