The history of the blues / by Francis Davis.

Challenging many accepted notions about the blues, a combination of cultural commentary, musical analysis, research, and visual images provides a new perspective on an enduring musical form and its place in American history.

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Main Author: Davis, Francis, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2003.
Edition:1st Da Capo Press ed.
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505 0 |a Coon shouters and titular blues -- Blues vaudevillians, jug bands, and medicine show songsters -- Delta transcendentalists, Texas troubadours, and East Coast fingerpickers -- Robert Johnson's satanic verses -- The thirties and forties: rural, urban, and midway between -- Leadbelly's black body -- Home truths: Muddy, B.B., and the last race labels -- Chuck and Elvis, hands-on preservationists, and soul in the biblical sense -- Blues connotation/from songsters to soulsters. 
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