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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457859403321

Titolo

Ramblin' on my mind [[electronic resource] ] : new perspectives on the blues / / edited by David Evans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008

ISBN

1-283-25101-9

9786613251015

0-252-09112-4

Descrizione fisica

430 p. : ill., map, music

Collana

African American music in global perspective

Altri autori (Persone)

EvansDavid <1944->

Disciplina

781.643

Soggetti

Blues (Music) - History and criticism

African Americans - Music - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.