Wichita blues
Subtitle: music in the African American community
By: Patrick Joseph O'Connor ; with portraiture photography by Arthur Kenyon ; introduction by Dr. David H. Evans
Contributors: Kenyon, Arthur photographer; Evans, David H. (David Huhn) editor writer of introduction
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Rofant Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Wichita KS
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781929731329
Subjects: Blues (Music); Interviews; History and criticism; Blues musicians; African American musicians
Table of contents: title: Early blacks in Kansas : soldiers, cowboys, minstrels; title: The exodusters and settlers through the 1920s; title: The 1930s : Perry Reed, Walton Morgan, Shirley Green; title: The 1940s : Gene Metcalf, Harold Cary, Arthur Bates; title: The 1950s : Franklin Mitchell, Jerry Childers, Henry Walker; title: Folk artists : Harmonica Chuck, Albert Tucker; title: The Oklahoma influence : Jesse Anderson, Donald Dunn, Berry Harris; title: Charles Walker, Remona Hicks; title: The 1960s : Joe Lotson, Ray Valentine, Barbara Kerr; title: Discussion of results : Heider's balance theory, Wichita blues parametric model, and diffusion and innovation; the Wichita style, importance in blues history.