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" Ramblin' on my mind : "
edited by David Evans
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BL
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625834
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| Title & Author
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Ramblin' on my mind : : new perspectives on the blues /\ edited by David Evans
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| Series Statement
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African American music in global perspective
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430 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780252032035
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: 0252032039
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: 9780252074486
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: 0252074483
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product
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Blues (Music)-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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781.643
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782.421643
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ML3521.R29 2008
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Evans, David,1944-
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| Parallel Title
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New perspectives on the blues
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