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

• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 430 p. : ill., map, music
• Disciplina: 781.643
• Soggetto topico: Blues (Music) - History and criticism; African Americans - Music - History and criticism
• Altri autori: EvansDavid <1944->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ramblin' on my mind
• ISBN: 1-283-25101-9; 9786613251015; 0-252-09112-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779053803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African American music in global perspective.