Title:
The history of the blues
Author:
Davis, Francis, 1946-
ISBN:
9780786860524
9780786881246
Publication Information:
New York : De Capo, c1995.
Physical Description:
viii, 309 s.
General Note:
"The history of the blues is the companion volume to a three-part PBS series of the same name"--Introd.
Contents:
Coon shouters and titular blues -- Blues vaudevillians, jug bands, and medicine show songsters -- Delta transcendentalists, Texas troubadours, and East Coast fingerpickers -- Robert Johnson's satanic verses -- The thirties and forties: rural, urban, and midway between -- Leadbelly's black body -- Home truths: Muddy, B.B., and the last race labels -- Chuck and Elvis, hands-on preservationists, and soul in the biblical sense -- Blues connotation/from songsters to soulsters.
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status | Item Holds |
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Searching... | Book | 7.2/14/3538 | ML3521 .D36 1995 | Searching... | Searching... |