| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
174 pages ; 28 cm. |
| Series |
Music in American life
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Music in American life.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170) and indexes. |
| Contents |
I. Down home. Down in Mississippi -- Have you ever -- Grosebeck blues -- Tim Moore's Farm -- Trouble at home blues -- Bad boy -- Cotton crop blues -- Dark muddy bottom -- Down child -- II. I'm the sweetest man in town. She fooled me -- Evil blues -- Mattie Mae -- Goin' fishin -- Kissing in the dark -- Please don't think I'm nosy -- Baker shop boogie -- Money, marbles, and chalk -- Rough dried woman -- Alley special -- Lonesome cabin -- Eyesight to the blind -- Mr. highway man -- Santa Clause -- Good thing blues -- New crawlin'king snake -- Man around my door -- Katie Mae -- Tell me baby -- Miss Loretta -- Long way from Texas -- Sweetest woman -- So sad to be lonesome -- Abilene -- Hollywood boogie -- Highway blues -- Take your hand out of my pocket -- III. I can't do it all by myself. It's your life -- Take it easy baby -- Help me -- This old life -- Your funeral and your trial -- Build a cave -- War news blues -- Don't loose your eye -- My fault -- Coffee blues -- Schooldays on my mind -- IV. The living have gone so high. Democrat blues -- Stockyard blues -- Things are so slow -- Tough times -- Repossession blues -- Everybody wants to know -- Candy kitchen -- Living in the Whitehouse -- Ain't times hard -- V. I've been mistreated. Half a stranger -- Lonesome home -- Short-haired woman -- Pepper head woman -- Give me back that wig -- Big town playboy -- Chicago blues -- Black man blues -- When the sun is shining -- Playing the races -- Long distance call -- Bad woman blues -- Don't start me to talkin -- You can't make the grade -- In my younger days -- Hoodoo, hoodoo -- Five long years -- Mama's baby child -- What wrong have I done -- Bad lover blues -- Don't laugh at me -- Street loafin' woman -- Gypsy woman -- Peace breaking people -- Nervy woman blues -- I got a woman -- Making a fool out of me -- Ground hog -- VI. I'm gonna have to let her go. Fattening frogs for snakes -- Smoke stack lightnin -- Mistreated blues -- Moonshine blues -- Dog me around -- Ludella -- Best days -- Hole in the wall -- Bad life blues -- I'm leavin' you baby -- Just can't stay -- I'm gonna quit you baby -- So long blues -- Wednesday evenin'blues -- No nights by myself -- You can't tell them where I'm going -- I tried -- Got to let you go -- I better go now -- Crying won't help you --Early morning -- Train time -- Take it easy baby -- Bye bye bird -- Life I used to live -- She got me walking -- Goin' back -- VII. Sometime I was goinn' so fast that I just couldn't see the road. Hard times -- I can't be satisfied -- Down home girl -- The end -- On the road again -- Grievance blues -- Falling rain blues --Goin' back and talk to mama -- Shelby county blues -- Seventy-four blues -- The goat -- Louisiana blues -- Good evening everybody -- Goin' to Chattanooga -- Picture on the wall. |
| Subject |
Blues (Music) -- Texts.
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Blues (Music) -- Texts. |
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African Americans -- Music -- Texts.
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African Americans -- Music. |
| Genre/Form |
Texts.
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| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors.
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American poetry -- African American authors. |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0252061306 paperback alkaline paper |
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0252017285 alkaline paper |
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