num_pages: 264
description: This study of the blues by one of Americaâ€s premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular music—a blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.
language: English
title: Stomping the Blues
titlecomplete: Stomping the Blues
genres: Music, Nonfiction, Essays, Criticism, Jazz, History, African American
ratings_count: 194
publisher: The McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc.