Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald |
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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 over the past thirty years with respect to Civil Rights reform.
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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 Spurgeon 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 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 Series) 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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