Title: The story of the blues.
Authors: Oliver, Paul, 1927-2017.
Publisher: Chilton Book Co.
Year: 1969
Subjects: Blues (Music) History and criticism; Blues musicians United States.; African American musicians.
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.