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 indexes.
Table of contents: value: Bourdon, blue notes, and pentatonism in the blues : an Africanist perspective / Gerhard Kubik; value: "They cert'ly sound good to me" : sheet music, southern vaudeville, and the commercial ascendancy of the blues / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff; value: Abbe Niles, blues advocate / Elliott S. Hurwitt; value: The hands of blues guitarists / Andrew M. Cohen; value: From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine : nicknames of blues singers / David Evans; value: Preachin' the blues : a textual linguistic analysis of Son House's "Dry spell blues" / Luigi Monge; value: Some ramblings on Robert Johnson's mind : critical analysis and aesthetic value in Delta blues / James Bennighof; value: "Guess these people wonder what I'm singing" : quotation and reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis blues" / Katharine Cartwright; value: Beyond the mushroom cloud : a decade of disillusion in black blues and gospel song / Bob Groom; value: Houston creoles and zydeco : the emergence of an African  American urban popular style / John Minton.