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Long Lost Blues exposes for the first time the full scope and importance of early popular blues to mainstream American culture in the early twentieth century. Closely analyzing sheet music and other print sources that have previously gone unexamined, Muir revises our understanding of the evolution and sociology of blues at its inception.
Long Lost Blues exposes for the first time the full scope and importance of early popular blues to mainstream American culture in the early twentieth century. Closely analyzing sheet music and other print sources that have previously gone unexamined, Muir revises our understanding of the evolution and sociology of blues at its inception.
A Word about the Music Examples xi
Introduction 1
1. The Popular Blues Industry, 1912-1920 7
2. The Identity and Idiom of Early Popular Blues 28
3. Curing the Blues with the Blues 80
4. The Blues of W. C. Handy 104
5. The Creativity of Early Southern Published Blues 141
6. Published Proto-Blues and the Evolution of the Twelve-Bar Sequence 181
Appendix: Titular Blues, 1912-1915 217
Notes 221
Major Works Consulted 243
General Index 245
Song Index 251
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780252076763 |
| ISBN-10: | 0252076761 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Muir, Peter C. |
| Hersteller: | University of Illinois Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk |
| Abbildungen: | 31 black & white photographs, 98 music examples, 9 tables |
| Maße: | 15 x 178 x 254 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Peter C. Muir |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.12.2009 |
| Gewicht: | 0,567 kg |