Write me a few of your lines : a blues reader / edited by Steven C. Tracy.

Other author Tracy, Steven C. (Steven Carl), 1954- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxvi, 603 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Subjects
Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Contents Defining the blues -- Africa and the blues -- African influence on the music of the Americas / Richard Alan Waterman -- From "Blues: the Conflict of Cultures" / Janheinz Jahn -- Song structure and social structure / Alan Lomax -- African influence on the blues / Paul Oliver -- Africa and the blues / David Evans -- Echoes of the jungle? / Paul Oliver -- Before and alongside the blues -- From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass -- Slave and post-slave / LeRoi Jones -- From "Primitive Blues and Primitive Jazz" / LeRoi Jones -- Do the Bombashay: dance songs and routines / Paul Oliver -- From "Folk and Popular Blues" / David Evans -- Folklore and the blues -- Folk-song and folk-poetry as found in the secular songs of the southern negroes / Howard W. Odum -- Double meaning in the popular negro blues / Guy B. Johnson -- I got the blues / Alan Lomax -- The singer and the bluesman: formulations of personality in the lyrics of the blues / Dennis Jarrett -- Oral formulas in the country blues / John Barnie -- The blues and religion -- From "My adventures as a social poet" / Langston Hughes -- From "Role and Response" / Charles Keil -- The blues as a secular religion / Rod Gruver -- The blues: a secular spiritual / James H. Cone -- The police and the church / Paul Garon -- Style -- The blues harp, parts one and two / Lawrence Hoffman -- January, 1925 / Edward Brooks -- From "The Greening of the Delta Blues" / Stephen Calt, Gayle Dean Wardlow.
Abstract This book brings together some of the most significant writings about the blues published between 1911 and 1998. Included are selections by folklorists, anthropologists, sociologists, literary artists, musicians, critics, and aficionados. From these various perspectives emerges a new understanding of the blues: its origins in African aesthetics; the impact of slavery and Reconstruction on it; its early folk manifestations; and the importance of religion, style, gender, audience, protest, and the record business in its development as an art form. Further context is provided by a comprehensive introduction, section overviews, and an extensive bibliography, discography, and videography of blues materials.
Bibliography noteIncludes discography (pages 551-569), bibliographical references (pages 571-578), videography (pages 571-578), and indexes.
LCCN 99018332
ISBN1558492054 (cl. : alk. paper)
ISBN1558492062 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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