| Description |
1 online resource (430 pages) : illustrations, map, music. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
African American music in global perspective
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African American music in global perspective.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Blues (Music) -- History and criticism.
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Blues (Music) |
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African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Evans, David, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ramblin' on my mind. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007030753 |
| ISBN |
0252091124 (electronic book) |
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9780252091124 (electronic book) |
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1283251019 |
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9781283251013 |
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9780252032035 |
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0252032039 |
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9780252074486 |
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0252074483 |
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