Long lost blues : popular blues in America, 1850-1920

Long lost blues : popular blues in America, 1850-1920 / Peter C. Muir.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Muir, Peter C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.
Series:	Music in American life.
Subjects:	Blues (Music) > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Word about the music examples
Introduction
1: Popular blues industry, 1912-1920
2: Identity and idiom of early popular blues
3: Curing the blues with the blues
4: Blues of W C Handy
5: Creativity of early Southern published blues
6: Published proto-blues and the evolution of the twelve-bar sequence
Appendix: Titular blues, 1912-1915
Notes
Major works consulted
General index
Song index.