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Woman with guitar : Memphis Minnie's blues / Paul and Beth Garon.
LIBRA - Rare ML420.M376 G4 1992 Banks copy
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LIBRA - Rare ML420.M376 G4 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garon, Paul, 1942-
- Garon, Beth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memphis Minnie, 1897-1973.
- Memphis Minnie.
- Blues musicians--United States--Biography.
- Blues musicians.
- United States.
- Memphis Minnie, 1897-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Blues (Music)--History and criticism.
- Blues (Music).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 332 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Memphis Minnie's blues
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1992.
- Contents:
- Part I: The Life. The heroine; Woman with guitar: the rise of Memphis Minnie; Southern nights; Chicago days; Me and my chauffeur; "I drink anywhere I please"; "The best thing goin'"
- Part II: The Songs. To make heard the interior voice; Bumble bee; Crime; Dirt Dauber blues; Doctors and disease; Doors; Dirty dozens; Duets; Food and cooking; Horses; Trains and travel; Mad love; Work.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-318) and index.
- Discography: pages 257-282.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0306804603 :
- OCLC:
- 25281259
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