Ramblin' on my mind
Subtitle: new perspectives on the blues
By: edited by David Evans.
Contributors: Evans, David, 1944-
Series: African American music in global perspective
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780252032035; 9780252074486
Subjects: Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bourdon, blue notes, and pentatonism in the blues: an Africanist perspective / Gerhard Kubik; title: "They cert'ly sound good to me": sheet music, Southern vaudeville, and the commercial ascendancy of the blues / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff; title: Abbe Niles, blues advocate / Elliott S. Hurwitt; title: The hands of blues guitarists / Andrew M. Cohen; title: From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: nicknames of blues singers / David Evans; title: Preachin' the blues: a textual linguistic analysis of Son House's "Dry spell blues" / Luigi Monge; title: Some ramblings on Robert Johnson's mind: critical analysis and aesthetic value in Delta blues / James Bennighof; title: "Guess these people wonder what I'm singing": quotation and reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis blues" / Katharine Cartwright; title: Beyond the mushroom cloud: a decade of disillusion in black blues and gospel song / Bob Groom; title: Houston creoles and zydeco: the emergence of an African  American urban popular style / John Minton.