Long lost blues
Subtitle: popular blues in America, 1850-1920
By: by Peter C. Muir.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252034879; 9780252076763
Subjects: Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The popular blues industry, 1912-1920; title: The identity and idiom of early popular blues; title: Curing the blues with the blues; title: The blues of W. C. Handy; title: The creativity of early Southern published blues; title: Published proto-blues and the evolution of the twelve-bar sequence.