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Title Blues : an anthology : complete words and music of 53 great songs / edited by W.C. Handy ; with an historical and critical text by Abbe Niles ; with pictures by Miguel Covarrubias ; revised by Jerry Silverman ; new introduction by William Ferris.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, [1990]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  M1630.18 .B626 1990  1990    Available  ---
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  M1630.18 .B585 1990    Available  ---
Description 1 score (224 pages), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm.
score
Series A Da Capo paperback
Da Capo paperback.
Note For voice and piano, with chord symbols.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan Company, c1972.
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (pages 217-218).
Contents The folk-blues as verse -- The folk-blues as music -- William Christopher Handy -- The modern blues and jazz -- The pioneers -- Influence of the blues on popular song -- Blues and recent jazz -- Train's a-comin' -- Let us cheer the weary traveller -- Somebody's wrong about dis Bible -- Joe Jacobs -- Goin' to see my Sarah -- Sail away, ladies -- Come on, Eph! -- Juba -- East St. Louis -- A typical stomp -- Careless love -- Ever after on -- Vesta and Mattie's blues -- Got no mo' home dan a dog -- Friendless blues -- The Memphis blues -- Dallas blues -- The jogo blues -- St. Louis blues --Yellow dog blues -- Golden brown blues -- Stingaree blues -- Florida blues -- The hesitating blues -- Joe Turner blues -- The snakey blues -- Wall Street blues -- Beal Street blues -- Tishomingo blues -- Hooking cow blues -- Blue gummed blues -- Blind man blues -- Deep river blues -- Goin' down that long long lonesome road -- Aunt Hagar's children -- Aunt Hagar's children blues -- Loveless love -- Sundown blues -- The basement blues -- Way down south where the blues began -- Basin Street blues -- The blues I've got -- Boogie-woogie on St. Louis blues -- Shoeboot's serenade -- The gouge of Armour Avenue -- Ole Miss -- Harlem blues -- John Henry blues -- Atlanta blues -- The Chicago gouge -- Chantez les bas -- Long gone -- Boodle-am.
Genre/Form Blues (Music)
Blues (Music)
Subject Blues (Music) -- To 1931 -- History and criticism.
Blues (Music)
Chronological Term To 1931
Subject Songs with piano.
Songs with piano.
Genre/Form Songs with piano.
Subject Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
United States.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African Americans -- Music.
African Americans -- Music.
Genre/Form Scores.
Scores.
Added Author Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958.
Niles, Abbe.
Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957.
Silverman, Jerry, 1931-
Ferris, William R.
ISBN 0306804115 : $14.95
Music No. 0411 Da Capo Press