Blues
Subtitle: An Anthology
Contributors: W C Handy (Editor, Illustrator); Miguel Covarrubias (Illustrator, Editor); Abbe Niles (Introduction)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781557095213
Subjects: Music/Songbooks; Genres & Styles - Blues; Music; Songbooks - Popular; History & Criticism - General; Blues (Music); History and criticism; Music / Songbooks; Music/Genres & Styles - Blues; Music/History & Criticism - General; To 1931; General
First sentence: THE blues sprang up, probably within the last quarter-century, among illiterate and more or less despised classes of Southern Negroes: barroom pianists, careless nomadic laborers, watchers of incoming trains and steamboats, street-corner guitar players, strumpets and outcasts.