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Author: Jeff Todd Titon
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780252061301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A collection of outstanding folk blues lyrics composed and sung by black Americans and sold on commercial records in American black communities during the dozen or so year following World War II."--Preface.
Author: Jeff Todd Titon
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781469616919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, Early Downhome Blues is a detailed look at traditional country blues artists and their work. Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. He also explores what happened to the art form when the blues were commercially recorded and became part of the larger American culture. From forty-seven musical transcriptions, Titon derives a grammar of early downhome blues melody. His book is enriched with the recollections of blues performers, audience members, and those working in the recording industry. In a new afterword, Titon reflects on the genesis of this book in the blues revival of the 1960s and the politics of tourism in the current revival under way.
Author: Michael Taft
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1135485992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics. This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures. A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.
Author: Edward Komara
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 1274
ISBN-13: 1135958319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 790
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dick Weissman
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0816069751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents brief entries covering the history, significant artists, styles and influence of blues music.
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Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 0807833258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects interviews and commentary on blues and gospel music from the Mississippi Delta area, and discusses how race relations, connections to the sacred, and Southern life helped mold this style of music.
Author: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 968
ISBN-13: 9780674002760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Author: Robert Ford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-03-31
Total Pages: 1401
ISBN-13: 1135865086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and updated definitive blues bibliography now includes 6,000-7,000 entries to cover the last decade’s writings and new figures to have emerged on the Country and modern blues to the R&B scene.
Author: Helen Myers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9780393033786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComplementing Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, this volume of studies, written by world-acknowledged authorities, places the subject of ethnomusicology in historical and geographical perspective. Part I deals with the intellectual trends that contributed to the birth of the discipline in the period before World War II. Organized by national schools of scholarship, the influence of 19th-century anthropological theories on the new field of "comparative musicology" is described. In the second half of the book, regional experts provide detailed reviews by geographical areas of the current state of ethnomusicological research.
