LEADER 03922nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910459352103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-55562-6 010 $a9786612555626 010 $a1-60473-547-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000019412 035 $a(EBL)534345 035 $a(OCoLC)630107738 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415183 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11297084 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415183 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10409890 035 $a(PQKB)11349551 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC534345 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13612 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL534345 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389881 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000019412 100 $a20070130d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCross the water blues$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican American music in Europe /$fedited by Neil A. Wynn 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican made music series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57806-960-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"Why I sing the blues" : African American culture in the transatlantic world / Neil A. Wynn -- Taking the measure of the blues / Paul Oliver -- Even philosophers get the blues : feeling bad for no reason / David Webster -- Spirituals to (nearly) swing, 1873-1938 / Jeffrey Green -- Black music prior to the first world war : American origins and German perspectives / Rainer E. Lotz -- Fascination and fear : responses to early jazz in Britain / Catherine Parsonage -- "Un saxophone en mouvement"? : Josephine Baker and the primitivist reception of jazz in Paris in the 1920's / Iris Schmeisser -- Paul Robeson's British journey / Sean Creighton -- Preaching the gospel of the blues : blues evangelists in Britain / Roberta Freund Schwartz -- Whose "Rock Island line"? : originality in the composition of blues and British skiffle / Bob Groom -- The blues blueprint : the blues in the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin / Rupert Till -- "The blues is the truth" : the blues, modernity, and the British blues boom / Leighton Grist -- Lowland blues : the reception of African American blues and gospel music in the Netherlands / Guido van Rijn -- The blues in France / Robert Springer -- Cultural displacement, cultural creation : African American jazz musicians in Europe from Bechet to Braxton / Christopher G. Bakriges. 330 $aThis unique collection of essays examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to the twentieth century. In a sweeping examination of different musical forms--spirituals, blues, jazz, skiffle, and orchestral music--the contributors consider the reception and influence of black music on a number of different European audiences, particularly in Britain, but also France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The essayists approach the subject through diverse historical, musicological, and philosophical perspectives. A number of essays 410 0$aAmerican made music series. 606 $aAfrican Americans$vMusic$xInfluence 606 $aAfrican Americans$zEurope$xMusic$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular music$zEurope$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xInfluence. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xMusic$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular music$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a781.64309 701 $aWynn$b Neil A$0895766 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459352103321 996 $aCross the water blues$92001134 997 $aUNINA