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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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Details
- 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
- OCLC
- vendor
- 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 08-380Sc E 08-1337