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Title:

Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues / edited by David Evans.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Evans, David, 1944-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

African American music in global perspective

ISBN:

0252074483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252074486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252032039 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252032035 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007030753

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)