The blues lyric formula
By: Michael Taft.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Blues (Music) -- Analysis, appreciation; Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining the commercial blues; title: Defining the blues formula; title: Fine adjustments : extraformulaic elements in the blues; title: The ties that bind : formulas to lines, lines to stanzas, stanzas to songs; title: Twenty common formulas; title: One singer's formulaic tradition : the repertoire of Garfield Akers; title: Why is the blues formulaic?; title: Singers and their songs.