Title:
The history of the blues / by Francis Davis.
Author:
Davis, Francis.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2003.
Call Number:
ML3521 .D36 2003
Added Uniform Title:
History of the blues (Television program)
Edition:
1st Da Capo Press ed., 2nd pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780306812965
Physical Description:
viii, 309 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
General Note:
"The history of the blues is a companion volume to a planned three-part PBS series of the same name"--P.1.
Contents:
Coon shouters and titular blues -- Blues vaudevillians, jug bands, and medicine show songsters -- Delta transcendentalists, Texas troubadours, and East Coast fingerpickers -- Robert Johnson's satanic verses -- The thirties and forties: rural, urban, and midway between -- Leadbelly's black body -- Home truths: Muddy, B.B., and the last race labels -- Chuck and Elvis, hands-on preservationists, and soul in the biblical sense -- Blues connotation/from songsters to soulsters.
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