blues music

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blues music

Chicago blues

as seen from the inside : the photographs of Raeburn Flerlage
2000
A collection of black-and-white photographs by Raeburn Flerlage that capture the Chicago blues scene in the 1960s and 1970s.

The jazz cadence of American culture

1998
A collection of writings that chronicle the history of American jazz and discuss how jazz music has influenced the culture of the United States over the years.

Mother of the blues

a study of Ma Rainey
1981
Chronicles the life of blues singer Ma Rainey and includes a textual analysis of her songs.

The Blues

birth of an American sound
2005
Traces the development of Blues music in the United States from the nineteenth century to the 1960s.

Blues journey

2005
This book explains that the "blues" music grew out of the intermingling of European English and the African call and response and explores the "blues" lyrics that tell of the adverse conditions under which black people lived.

The blues of Flats Brown

2002
To escape an abusive master, a junkyard dog named Flats runs away and makes a name for himself from Mississippi to New York City playing blues on his guitar.

Conjugations and reiterations

2001
A collection of poems by contemporary American author Albert Murray.

Blues guitar songs for dummies

2007
Presents standard notation, guitar tablature, lyrics, and performance notes for thirty-five classic blues guitar songs.

Can't be satisfied

the life and times of Muddy Waters
2002
Offers an authoritative biography of the father of modern blues, detailing his turbulent life, from the cotton fields of rural Mississippi to his extraordinary rise to success, forever changing the music industry.

In search of the blues

black voices, white visions
2008

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