| Description |
1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Broadcasting the Blues; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface: A Trailer; Introduction: The Development of the Blues; I Before the Blues; 1 Blues in Retrospect; 2 Echoes of Africa; 3 Go Down, Old Hannah; 4 Old Country Stomp; 5 Ragtime Millionaire; 6 Doctor Medicine; 7 John Henry and the Boll Weevil; 8 Yonder Comes the Blues; II Blues, How Do You Do?; 9 Anticipatin' Blues; 10 In the Field; 11 Playing the Boards; 12 Declassifying the Classic Blues; 13 Blues as an Art Form, Part I: Playing the Blues; 14 The Blues and Black Society; 15 Singing the Blues |
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16 Blues as an Art Form, Part 11: Expressing the BluesIII Meaning in the Blues; 17 Blues and Trouble; 18 Down the Dirt Road; 19 Black Cat's Bone; 20 Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More; 21 Jail House Moan; 22 Let's Have a New Deal; 23 High Water Everywhere; 24 This World Is in a Tangle; 25 Blues with a Feeling; 26 Three Ball Blues; IV Documenting the Blues; 27 Creating the Documents; 28 Still to Be Documented; Discography; Name Index; Title Index; General Index |
| Summary |
Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural South through the heyday of sound recordings. Noted blues scholar Paul Oliver draws on decades of research and personal interviews with performers--some of whom he ""discovered"" and recorded for the first time--to draw a picture of how the blues aesthetic developed, giving new insights into the role blues played in American s |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135467166 |
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1135467161 |
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