Stomping the blues
By: Albert Murray ; produced and art directed by Harris Lewine.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
First sentence: Sometimes you forget all about them in spite of yourself, but all too often the very first thing you realize when you wake up in that they are there again, settling in like bad weather, hovering like plague-bearing insects, swarming precisely as if they were indeed blue demons dispatched on their mission of harassment by none other than the Chief Red Devil of all devils himself; and yet perhaps as often as not it is also as if they squat obscene and vulturelike, waiting and watching you and preening themselves at the same time, their long rubbery necks writhing as if floating.
Description: An impressionistic analysis of blues and jazz, although jazz is never mentioned except in titles.  The analysis runs through history, motivation, and outcome, along with strong declarations about what blues is and is not.
Notes: Erratum slip inserted.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The Blues as Such
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: The Blues Face to Face
pagenum: 7; label: 3
title: The Blue Devils and the Holy Ghost
pagenum: 21; label: 4
title: The Blues as Music
pagenum: 43; label: 5
title: Blues Music as Such
pagenum: 55; label: 6
title: Singing the Blues
pagenum: 77; label: 7
title: Playing the Blues
pagenum: 91; label: 8
title: Swinging the Blues
pagenum: 129; label: 9
title: Kansas City Four/Four and the Velocity of Celebration
pagenum: 146; label: 10
title: The Blues as Dance Music
pagenum: 179; label: 11
title: Folk Art and Fine Art
pagenum: 201; label: 12
title: The Blues as Statement
pagenum: 225; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 255; title: Index
pagenum: 259