How Britain got the blues : the transmission and reception of American blues style in the United Kingdom

How Britain got the blues : the transmission and reception of American blues style in the United Kingdom / Roberta Freund Schwartz.

This book explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. It is commonly known that many 'British invasion' rock bands were heavily influenced by Chicago and Delta blues styles. But how, exactly, did Britain get the blues? Roberta Schwartz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwartz, Roberta Freund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Series:Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Subjects:
Blues (Music) > Great Britain > History and criticism.
Blues (Music) > Influence.
Blues (Music) > Great Britain > 1951-1960.
Blues (Music) > Great Britain > 1961-1970.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Blues.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Soul & R 'n B.
Blues > Gran Bretaña > Historia
Blues (Music)
Blues (Music) > Influence
Blues
Blues > historia > Storbritannien.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Jazz reception in Britain : misunderstandings and recordings in exile
  • The first time I met the blues : blues arrives in Britain
  • 1953-1957 : the problem of the new
  • 1957-1962 : the blues revival, part I
  • London : the new Chicago! : the R & B boom of 1963-1965
  • Blues at the crossroads : the British blues revival part III, 1965-1970.

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