Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues /
edited by David Evans.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008.
- 1 online resource.
- African American music in global perspective .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Bourdon, blue notes, and pentatonism in the blues: an Africanist perspective / "They cert'ly sound good to me": sheet music, Southern vaudeville, and the commercial ascendancy of the blues / Abbe Niles, blues advocate / The hands of blues guitarists / From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: nicknames of blues singers / Preachin' the blues: a textual linguistic analysis of Son House's "Dry spell blues" / Some ramblings on Robert Johnson's mind: critical analysis and aesthetic value in Delta blues / "Guess these people wonder what I'm singing": quotation and reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis blues" / Beyond the mushroom cloud: a decade of disillusion in black blues and gospel song / Houston creoles and zydeco: the emergence of an African American urban popular style / Gerhard Kubik -- Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff -- Elliott S. Hurwitt -- Andrew M. Cohen -- David Evans -- Luigi Monge -- James Bennighof -- Katharine Cartwright -- Bob Groom -- John Minton.
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.
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