Blues - books

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (Le Roi Jones). Blues People: Negro Music in White
America. orig. 1963;  Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Baker, Houston A., Jr. Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature: a
vernacular theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
An anthropological, semiotic study of blues from the standpoint of the 
"music" (words, really) as a matrix or crossroads.

Barlow, William. Looking up at down: the emergence of blues culture.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Bastin, Bruce. Crying for the Carolines. London: Studio Vista, 1971.

Bastin, Bruce. Red River blues: the blues tradition in the Southeast.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Bogaert, Karel.  Blues Lexicon.  Antwerp: Standard, 1972.

Calt, Stephen. King of the Delta blues: the life and music of Charlie
Patton. Rock Chapel Press, 1988.

Carruth, Hayden. Sitting in: selected writings on jazz, blues, and related
topics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, expanded ed. 1993.

Charters, Samuel. Sweet as the showers of rain. New York: Oak Publications,
1977.

Charters, Samuel B. The Blues Makers. New York: Da Capo Press.

Charters, Samuel B. The Bluesmen. New York: Oak Pubs., 1967.

Charters, Samuel B. The poetry of the blues. New York: Oak Publications,
1963.

Charters, Samuel B. The Legacy of the Blues: Art and Lives of Twelve Great
Bluesmen. New York: Da Capo Press.

Charters, Samuel B. The country blues. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. 
(orig. 1959.

Cone, James H. The spirituals and the blues: an interpretation. New York:
Seabury Press, 1972.

Cook, Bruce. Listen to the blues. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1973.

Cousin Joe. Cousin Joe: blues from New Orleans. University of Chicago
Press, 1987.

Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday: the T-Bone Walker story. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

Davis, Francis. The history of the blues. 1995.

Dixon, Robert M. W. Blues & gospel records, 1902-1943. Storyville
Publications, 1982.

Dixon, Robert M. W. Recording the blues. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.

Evans, David. Big road blues: tradition and creativity in the folk blues.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Ferris, William R. Blues from the Delta. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press,
1978.

Finn, Julio. The bluesman: the musical heritage of black men and women in
the Americas. London & New York: Quartet Books, 1986.

Garon, Paul.  Blues & the poetic spirit. New York: Da Capo Press, 1978. 

Garon, Paul.  Woman with guitar: Memphis Minnie's blues. New York: Da Capo
Press, 1992.

Gissing, Werner. Mississippi Delta Blues: Formen und Texte von Robert
Johnson (1911-1938) Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1986.

Groom, Bob. The blues revival. London: Studio Vista, 1971.

Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), ed. 1873-1958. Blues; an anthology. 
Complete words and music of 53 great songs. New York: Macmillan Co. 1972.

Handy, W. C. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. NY: 1941. Reprint,
NY: 1970.

Haralambos, Michael. Right on. New York: Drake Publishers, 1975.

Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who: a biographical dictionary. New York: Da
Capo Press, 1979.

Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. Rutgers
University Press, 1988.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Westport, CT: Negro University Press, 
1970.

Keil, Charles. Urban Blues. 1966.

Leadbetter, Mike. Delta Country Blues. Bexhill-On-Sea, Sussex: Blues 
Unlimited, 1968.

Lomax, Alan. Folk Music of North America. NY: Doubleday, 1958.

Lomax, Alan. The Land Where The Blues Began. New York: Pantheon Books,
1993.

McKee, Margaret and Fred Chisenhall. Beale Black & Blue: Life and Music on
Black America's Main Street. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1981.

Middleton, Richard. Pop music and the blues: a study of the relationship
and its significance. London: Gollancz, 1972.

Mitchell, George. Blow My Blues Away. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1971.

Murray, Albert. Stomping the blues. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

NARVAEX, P. THE INFLUENCES OF HISPANIC MUSIC CULTURES ON AFRICAN-
AMERICAN BLUES MUSICIANS.

Neff, Robert and Anthony Connor (comp.). Blues (interviews) Boston: D. R.
Godine, 1975.

Oakley, Giles. The devil's music: a history of the blues. New York:
Taplinger Pub. Co., 1977.

Odum, Howard and Guy B. Johnson. Negro Workaday Songs. Westport, CT:
Negro University Press, 1976.

Oliver, Paul. The story of the blues. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1969.
(see also: blues discography)

Oliver, Paul. Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Oliver, Paul, ed. New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz: with Spirituals and
Ragtime.  New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.

Oliver, Paul. Blues Fell This Morning: meaning in the blues. 2nd. ed. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Oliver, Paul. Savannah syncopators; African retentions in the blues. New
York: Stein and Day, 1970.

Oliver, Paul, ed. The New Grove gospel, blues, and jazz. 1986.

Oliver, Paul. Aspects of the blues tradition. New York: Oak Publications,
1970.

Olsson, Bengt. Memphis blues and jug bands. London: Studio Vista, 1970.

Oster, Harry. Living Country Blues. Detroit: Folklore Associates, 1969.

Palmer, Robert. Deep blues. New York: Viking Press, 1981.

Pearson, Barry Lee. Sounds so good to me: the bluesman's story.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

Pearson, Barry Lee. Virginia Piedmont blues: the lives and art of two
Virginia bluesmen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Ramsey, F. R. Been Here and Gone. Rutgers Univ. Press, 1960.

Rowe, Mike. Chicago breakdown. New York: Drake Publishers, 1975.

Sackheim, Eric. The blues line; a collection of blues lyrics. New York:
Grossman Publishers, 1969.

Shockett, Bernard Irwin. A stylistic study of the blues as recorded by jazz
instrumentalists, 1917-1931. University Microfilms International, 1977.
Thesis--New York University, 1964.
     rarely cited in modern research but a significant study.

Spencer, Jon Michael. Blues and evil. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1993.

Stewart-Baxter, Derrick. Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers. New York:
Stein and Day, 1970.

Titon, Jeff Todd, ed. Downhome blues lyrics: an anthology from the
post-World War II era. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. 2nd ed. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Titon, Jeff Todd. Early downhome blues: a musical and cultural analysis.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Tracy, Steven C. Going to Cincinnati: a history of the blues in the queen
city. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Tracy, Steven C. Langston Hughes & the Blues. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1988.

Van Der Merwe, Peter. Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of
Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Wolfe, Charles K. The life and legend of Leadbelly. New York: Harper
Collins Publishers, 1992.

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