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Ramblin' on My Mind : New Perspectives on the Blues.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African Amer Music in Global Perspective SeriesPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (441 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252091124
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ramblin' on My MindDDC classification:
  • 781.643
LOC classification:
  • ML3521
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Bourdon, Blue Notes, and Pentatonism in the Blues: An Africanist Perspective -- 2. "They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me": Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues -- 3. Abbe Niles, Blues Advocate -- 4. The Hands of Blues Guitaritsts -- 5. From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: Nicknames of Blues Singers -- 6. Preachin' the Blues: A Textual Linguistic Analysis of Son House's "Dry Spell Blues -- 7. Some Ramblings on Robert Johnson's Mind: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Value in Delta Blues -- 8. "Guess These People Wonder What I'm Singing": Quotation and Reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis Blues -- 9. Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: A Decade of Disillusion in Black Blues and Gospel Song -- 10. Houston Creoles and Zydeco: The Emergence of an African American Urban Popular Style -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Bourdon, Blue Notes, and Pentatonism in the Blues: An Africanist Perspective -- 2. "They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me": Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues -- 3. Abbe Niles, Blues Advocate -- 4. The Hands of Blues Guitaritsts -- 5. From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: Nicknames of Blues Singers -- 6. Preachin' the Blues: A Textual Linguistic Analysis of Son House's "Dry Spell Blues -- 7. Some Ramblings on Robert Johnson's Mind: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Value in Delta Blues -- 8. "Guess These People Wonder What I'm Singing": Quotation and Reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis Blues -- 9. Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: A Decade of Disillusion in Black Blues and Gospel Song -- 10. Houston Creoles and Zydeco: The Emergence of an African American Urban Popular Style -- Contributors -- Index.

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