Broadcasting the blues : black blues in the segregation era / Paul Oliver
- Author:
- Oliver, Paul, 1927-2017
- Published:
- New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Physical Description:
- xvii,191 pages ; 26 cm
- Contents:
- Before the blues. Blues in retrospect ; Echoes of Africa ; Go down, old Hannah ; Old country stomp ; Ragtime millionaire ; Doctor medicine ; John Henry and the boll weevil ; Yonder comes the blues -- Blues, how do you do? Anticipatin' blues ; In the field ; Playing the boards ; Declassifying the blues ; Blues as an art form, part I : playing the blues : The blues and black society : Singing the blues ; Blues as an art form, part II : expressing the blues -- Meaning in the blues. Blues and trouble ; Down the dirt road ; Black cat's bone ; Tricks ain't walkin' no more ; Jail house moan ; Let's have a new deal ; High water everywhere ; This world is in a tangle ; Blues with a feeling ; Three ball blues -- Documenting the blues. Creating the documents ; Still to be documented.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0415971764 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415971772 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note:
- Includes discography (p. 145-170) and indexes.
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