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Beschreibung
Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had already appeared in sheet music and on recordings. In this examination of early popular blues, Peter C. Muir traces the genre's early history and the highly creative interplay between folk and popular forms, focusing especially on the roles W. C. Handy played in both blues music and the music business.

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.

Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had already appeared in sheet music and on recordings. In this examination of early popular blues, Peter C. Muir traces the genre's early history and the highly creative interplay between folk and popular forms, focusing especially on the roles W. C. Handy played in both blues music and the music business.

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.

Zusammenfassung
An internationally recognized pianist, composer, scholar, and conductor, Peter C. Muir is the cofounder and codirector of the Institute for Music and Health in Verbank, New York.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
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
Details
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
Artikel-ID: 133506159