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Golden brown blues ; fox-trot, by W. C. Handy and Langston Hughes. Arranged by Millard G. Thomas.

Notated music

New York : W. C. Handy, [c1926]

1926

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall number*MTK-AmerItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

Interview-demonstration with Pearl Primus [sound recording] : the art of performing.

Spoken word recording

1953.

1953

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*MGZTC 3-110Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
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The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas. Volume 1, Canada and the United States / JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Hiroaki Ohta ; co-producer, Stephen McArthur, Multicultural Media ; executive producers, Katsumori Ichikawa and Yuji Ichihashi.

VHS

[Tokyo?] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan ; Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, c1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatVHSCall number*MGZIA 4-2480Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance.

The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas. Volume 2, the United States / JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Hiroaki Ohta ; co-producer, Stephen McArthur, Multicultural Media ; executive producers, Katsumori Ichikawa and Yuji Ichihashi.

VHS

[Tokyo?] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan ; Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, c1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZIA 4-2481Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance.

Bosses of the blues. vol. 1 / [sound recording] / Joe Turner [and] T-Bone Walker.

Music CD

New York : BMG Music, p1989.

1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusic CDCall number*LDC 7997 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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Legendary musicians [sound recording] : whose art has changed the world : a sampler.

Music CD

Jackson, Miss. : Malaco, [2001?]

2001-1929

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusic CDCall number*LDC 34447 [Notes]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusic CDCall number*LDC 34447 [CD]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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In memory of Michael Bloomfield [sound recording].

Music CD

Redwood Valley, Calif. : Blue Rock'It Records, p2002.

2002

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusic CDCall number*LDC 30103 [Notes]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusic CDCall number*LDC 30103 [CD]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Blues : clippings

Archival Mix

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberM-Clippings (Subjects) BluesItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Dirtdobber blues : a novel / Cyril E. Vetter.

Book/Text

[Baton Rouge, La.] : Printed and distributed by Louisiana State University Press, ©2011.

2011

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 15-1688Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Book/Text

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

2002

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 04-1213Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGS (U.S.) 02-897Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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100 books every blues fan should own / Edward Komara and Greg Johnson.

Book/Text

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

2014

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 14-91Item locationOffsite
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Ink : the indelible J. Mayo Williams / Clifford R. Murphy.

Book/Text

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]

2024

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The essential Bessie Smith.

Musical recording

New York, N.Y. : Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., ℗1997.

1997-1923

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusical recordingCall numberM1622.S65 E87 1997g cd1-2Item locationOff-site

Blues people : Negro music in white America / by LeRoi Jones.

Book/Text

New York : W. Morrow, 1963.

1963

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number .J73Item locationOff-site
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Chicago blues : as seen from the inside : the photographs of Raeburn Flerlage / edited by Lisa Day.

Book/Text

Toronto : ECW Press ; Chicago, Ill. : Distributed in the U.S. by LPC Group, [2000], ©2000.

2000-2000

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3521 .F59 2000Item locationOff-site

Wattstax / a Stax Films/Wolper Pictures production ; directed by Mel Stuart ; produced by Larry Shaw, Mel Stuart.

Film, Slide, etc.

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004], ©2004.

2004-1973

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberMUSDVD90344Item locationOff-site

Stomping the blues / Albert Murray ; produced and art directed by Harris Lewine.

Book/Text

New York : McGraw-Hill, [©1976]

1976

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3561.B63 M9Item locationOff-site

At the bunkhouse / Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry.

Musical recording

[Chicago] : Smash Records, [1965], ℗1965.

1965-1965

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusical recordingCall numberW6328Item locationOff-site

One man's blues : the life and music of Mose Allison / Patti Jones.

Book/Text

London : Quartet Books, c1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML417.A45 J65 1995xItem locationOff-site

De missie : de kruispunten van Harry 'Cuby' Muskee / Jeroen Wielaert.

Book/Text

Amsterdam : Uitgeverij 521, 2003.

2003

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML420.M82 W54 2003Item locationOff-site

Blues en balladen : Alan Lomax en Ate Doornbosch, twee muzikale veldwerkers / Louis Peter Grijp, Herman Roodenburg.

Book/Text

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press/Salomé, c2005.

2005

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberML3551 .G75 2005 + 1 discItem locationOff-site

Ich hab den Blues schon etwas länger : Spuren einer Musik in Deutschland / Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz (Hg.).

Book/Text

Berlin : Ch. Links, 2008.

2008

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3521 .I24 2008Item locationOff-site

Scritti nell'anima : storie di soul, di blues, di jazz / Eddy Cilìa.

Book/Text

Camucia (Arezzo) : Tuttle, 2007.

2007

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3470 .C55 2007Item locationOff-site

Jane Austen sings the blues / Nora Foster Stovel, editor ; Graham Guest and Grant Foster Stovel, producers.

Book/Text

Edmonton : Gutteridge Books, c2009.

2009

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberPR4037 .J334 2009Item locationOff-site

Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.

Book/Text

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

2009

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberML3521 .G58 2009 + compact disc + DVDItem locationOff-site

British blues 1958-1968 : la décennie fabuleuse / Gilles Blampain.

Book/Text

Bègles : Castor Astral, [2011]

2011-2011

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3521 .B53 2011Item locationOff-site

La storia del blues / Roberto Caselli ; prefazione di John Hammond Jr. ; introduzione di Eugenio Finardi ; a cura di Ezio Guaitamacchi.

Book/Text

Milano : Editore Ulrico Hoepli, [2015]

2015

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3521 .C38 2015Item locationOff-site

The art of the blues : a visual treasury of black music's golden age / Bill Dahl ; art consultant, Chris James.

Book/Text

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

2016

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberML85 .D3 2016Item locationOff-site

Images of the apocalypse in African American blues and spirituals : destruction in this land / Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska.

Book/Text

Frankfurt am Main ; New York ; Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, [2017]

2017

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3921.8.B68 Z56 2017Item locationOff-site

Ein Klang - zwei Welten : Blues im geteilten Deutschland, 1945 bis 1990 / Michael Rauhut.

Book/Text

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016].

2016

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3521 .R38 2016Item locationOff-site

Hidden history of Mississippi blues / Roger Stolle ; photography by Lou Bopp.

Book/Text

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.

2011

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3521 .S76 2011Item locationOff-site

Louis Armstrong, an early portrait.

Musical recording

New York, N.Y. : Milestone, [1969]

1969-1924

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall numberLS- 8783Item locationOff-site