This is a new, thoroughly revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues. First published in 1960, this remarkable book has not been superseded and its reappearance will be welcomed by all who wish to understand the complexity of meaning in the blues and the experiences which they expressed. The book examines the functions of the blues as black American folk music recorded during the 78 rpm era, from the 1920s to the 1950s. The lyrics are quoted extensively throughout the book, revealing their significance as a means of communication within black society. The author shows how the themes of labour and unemployment, migration and the Depression years, love, sex, and marriage, crime, violence and imprisonment, disasters, sickness, war and death are expressed in black idioms and he discusses their meaning on many levels.
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' ... remarkable ... a definitive study in breadth and depth of the themes, backgrounds, imagery and motivation of the blues.' The New York Times
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First published in the early sixties, this extensively revised edition of a classic study contains many newly recovered examples of the "blues" as well as a text updated in the light of developments occurring over the past thirty years.
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For one reason alone are Blacks to be found on the American Continent: the enslavement of their ancestors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, United States, World War, Red Cross, New York, Blind Boy Fuller, Jim Crow, Leroy Carr, Mister Blues, Joe Louis, South Side, Uncle Sam, Peetie Wheatstraw, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Civil War, President Roosevelt, Walter Davis, African American, Big Bill Broonzy, Bumble Bee Slim, John Henry, Maxwell Street, Barbecue Bob, Betty June, Blind Blake New!
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For one reason alone are Blacks to be found on the American Continent: the enslavement of their ancestors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, United States, World War, Red Cross, New York, Blind Boy Fuller, Jim Crow, Leroy Carr, Mister Blues, Joe Louis, South Side, Uncle Sam, Peetie Wheatstraw, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Civil War, President Roosevelt, Walter Davis, African American, Big Bill Broonzy, Bumble Bee Slim, John Henry, Maxwell Street, Barbecue Bob, Betty June, Blind Blake New!
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- Conversation with the Blues CD included by Paul Oliver in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Patterns of Negro Segregation (The African American Intellectual Heritage) by Charles S. Johnson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cold Feet by Gen Leroy on page 259, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Tragedy of Lynching (African American) by Arthur F. Raper in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues by Steve Cheseborough on page 187, and Back Matter
- Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come from: Lyrics and History (American Made Music) by Robert Springer on page 67, and page 104
- America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound by Andre Millard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Art of the Possible: Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925 (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Kevern J. Verney on page 149, and Back Matter
- The New Deal by Fiona Venn on page 66, and Back Matter
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