TY - BOOK AU - Evans,David TI - Ramblin' on my mind: new perspectives on the blues T2 - African American music in global perspective SN - 9780252091124 AV - ML3521 .R363 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Blues (Music) KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=569817&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -