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  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Blues Muse Tradition; 1. ""Don't Like My Ocean, Don t'Fish in My Sea"": Blues Muses, Racial Uplift, and Queer Camaraderie; 2. ""Never Was a White Man Had the Blues"": Blues Icons and Black Power; 3. ""I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gon' Settle Down"": Blues Women and Intersectionality; 4. ""Blues Falling Down Like Hail"": Blues Men and the Second-Wave Blues Revival; 5. ""It's Gonna Carry Me through This World"": The Post-Soul Blues Muse; Coda. Repetition with a Difference: Beyonce Knowles-Carter as Muse; Notes; Bibliography; Index.