The story of the blues.
| Author/creator | Oliver, Paul |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Chilton Book Company, [1969] |
| Description | 176 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Long hot summer days : the background of Afro-American music in the meeting of cultures after the Civil War -- Cottonfield hollers: origins of blues in work songs, field hollers, and the ballads of the songsters -- Down the dirt roads: traditions of the plantations around the Mississippi Delta and emergent blues techniques -- Froggy Bottom to Buckhead: blues singers of Texas, Alabama, and Georgia, development of guitar and piano music -- Bed slats an' all: string, washboard, and jug bands, Beale Street blues and the medicine show entertainers -- Rabbit Foot and Toby Time: minstrel and tent shows, vaudeville theatre circuits, and the women "classic blues" singers -- Struttin' that thing: Negro migrations in the jazz era, piano music in the South, in Chicago, and Detroit -- Walking the basses: urban blues and boogie-woogie of St Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, and the mid-western cities -- Hard time everywhere: blues and the record industry, themes and personalities of the post-depression years -- Chicago breakdown: blues bands of Chicago's south and west sides in the 'thirties and 'forties -- Back to Mississippi: the continuity of the rural blues tradition in Mississippi before the Second World War -- Travelin' men: guitar rags and harmonica breakdowns in the eastern states, the Carolinas, and Tennessee -- The number one scab: barrelhouse piano, the effects of recording, Kansas City blues and the migration to the West Coast -- King Biscuit time: blues on the radio networks, post-war blues centres of the South and the urban North -- Blues and trouble: rhythm and blues, the rise of modern styles, blues and the international audience. |
| General note | "Music examples": pages 169-170. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliographies: pages 171-174. |
| LCCN | 73076487 |
| ISBN | 9780801954412 |
| ISBN | 080195441X |