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Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues

Title
Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues / edited by David Evans.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
Evans, David, 1944-
Description
430 p. : ill., map, music; 23 cm.
Series Statement
African American music in global perspective
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JME 08-380
ISBN
  • 9780252032035 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252032039 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252074486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252074483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007030753
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Title
Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues / edited by David Evans.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
Series
African American music in global perspective
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Evans, David, 1944-
Research Call Number
JME 08-380
Sc E 08-1337
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