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Music 517: African American Musical Traditions

Supplementary readings


                         GENERAL STUDIES

W. Barlow, Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture
F. Davis, The History of the Blues
G. Oakley, The Devil's Music

                    REGIONAL AND TOPICAL STUDIES

A. Gussow, Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues 
  Tradition
P. Guralnick, Sweet Soul Music
A. Shaw, Black Popular Music in America
A. Heilbut, The Gospel Sound
B. Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Sourtheast
N. W. Pearson, Goin' to Kansas City
R. Palmer, Deep Blues
D. Evans, Big Road Blues
W. Ferris, Blues from the Delta
M. Rowe, Chicago Blues
P. Oliver, Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records
P. Oliver, Savannah Syncopators
R. Stone, Let the Inside be Sweet
B. Jackson, Wake Up Dead Man
H. Nathan, Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy
A. Ward, Dark Midnight When I Rise (Fisk Jubilee Singers)

                       SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

B. Pearson, Sounds So Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story
D. Harrison, Black Pearls: Blues Queens pf the 1920s
F. Taylor, Alberta Hunter
S. Lieb, Mother of the Blues: The Story of Ma Rainey
S. Colt & G. Wardlow, King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music 
     of Charley Patton
W. Dixon, I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story
P. Guralnick, Searching for Robert Johnson
C. Sawyer, The Arrival of B. B. King

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