Blues
Subtitle: An Anthology (Roots of Jazz)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: January 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780306762444
Subjects: Blues; General; Performing Arts
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.