Early downhome blues : a musical and cultural analysis / Jeff Todd Titon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943-

Contributor:

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

Series:

Music in American life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 296 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map, music ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First paperback printing.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1979.

Contents:

Part I: The music in the culture. Down home; The singers' perspective

Part II: The songs. Early downhome blues on records: a representative sample; Musical analysis: toward a song-producing system; Formulaic structure and meaning in early downhome blues lyrics

Part III: The response. Recording the blues; The cultural significance of race record advertisements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.

"Winner of the 1978 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award."

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0252007786

9780252007781

OCLC:

18658492