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Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues /
Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2008]
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| Colección: | African American music in global perspective.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.