Urban blues. / Charles Keil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keil, Charles.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.)

A Phoenix book ; P 291.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Jazz.

African American musicians.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 231 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The World Bank, [1966]

Contents:

Afro-American Music

Blues Styles: An historical sketch

Fattening Frogs for Snakes?

B. B. King Backstage

Big Bobby Blue Bland on Stage

Role and Response

Soul and Solidarity

Alternatives: Appendix A. The Identity Problem; Appendix B. Talking About Music; Appendix C. Blues Styles: An Annotated Outline.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Cover photograph by Raeburn Flerlage."

"Not to the Phoenix Edition. All but a few paragraphs of this book were written before Watts and before our war against the Vietnamese. Any optimistic passages may be forgiven, laughed off, or cried over accordingly. C.K."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "Third Impression 1968" paperback edition (21 cm.) in Phoenix Book series.

OCLC:

232252