Research Catalog

Title

Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues / edited by David Evans.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, David, 1944-

Description

430 pages : illustrations, map, music; 23 cm.

Series Statement

African American music in global perspective

Uniform Title

African American music in global perspective.

Subject

• Blues (Music) > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / David Evans -- 1. Bourdon, Blue Notes, and Pentatonism in the Blues: An Africanist Perspective / Gerhard Kubik -- 2. "They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me": Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff -- 3. Abbe Niles, Blues Advocate / Elliott S. Hurwitt -- 4. The Hands of Blues Guitarists / Andrew M. Cohen -- 5. From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: Nicknames of Blues Singers / David Evans -- 6. Preachin' the Blues: ATextual Linguistic Analysis of Son House's "Dry Spell Blues" / Luigi Monge -- 7. Some Ramblings on Robert Johnson's Mind: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Value in Delta Blues / James Bennighof -- 8. "Guess These People Wonder What I'm Singing": Quotation and Reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis Blues" / Katharine Cartwright -- 9. Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: A Decade of Disillusion in Black Blues and Gospel Song / Bob Groom -- 10. Houston Creoles and Zydeco: The Emergence of an African American Urban Popular Style / John Minton.

ISBN

• 9780252032035 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0252032039 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780252074486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0252074483 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007030753
• 40015085074

OCLC

• 159822428
• ocn159822428
• SCSB-5390062

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries