Stomping the blues
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Stomping the blues
(A Da Capo paperback)
Da Capo ; [1987], c1976
- : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The legendary study of the blues by one of America's premier writers and critics.. This study of the blues by one of Americas premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular musica blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.
Table of Contents
Part One * The Blues as Such * The Blues Face to Face * The Blue Devils and the holy Ghost * Blues Music as Such * Singing the Blues Part Two * Playing the Blues * Swinging the Blues * Kansas City Four/Four and the Velocity of Celebration * The Blues as Dance Music Part Three * Folk Art and Fine Art * The Blues as Statement * Epilogue * Index
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