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Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre » (REV)

Authors: Paul Oliver, Tony Russell, Robert M. W. Dixon
ISBN-13: 9780521782593, ISBN-10: 0521782597
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 2001
Edition: REV

Combines three influential and much-quoted books on African-American music.

	List of illustrations
	Introduction: Yonder come the blues	1
Bk. 1	Savannah syncopators: African retentions in the blues	11
1	Afternoon - Nangodi	13
2	Africa and the jazz historian	20
3	Music in West Africa	38
4	Savannah song	61
5	The source of the slaves	75
6	Africa and the blues	90
	Bibliographical notes	106
	Acknowledgements	113
7	Afterword	114
	Glossary of African instruments	129
	Glossary of tribes and people	136
	Record list	139
Bk. 2	Blacks, Whites and blues	143
8	Minstrelsy	147
9	Old familiar tunes	160
10	Letting out the blues	179
11	'That's the idea of the white people'	188
12	Out West	204
13	Out East	216
	Bibliography	225
14	Afterword	229
	Bibliography	237
	Recommended recordings (including CD reissues)	238
Bk. 3	Recording the blues	243
15	Birth of an industry	247
16	The new market, 1920-1922	250
17	The classic blues, 1923-1926	260
18	Into the field, 1927-1930	277
19	Hard times, 1931-1934	295
20	Urban blues, 1934-1940	308
21	End of an era, 1941-1945	322
	Further information	330
22	Afterword	331
	Index to Book 1	343
	Index to Book 2	346
	Index to Book 3	353