The devil's music : a history of the blues / Giles Oakley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oakley, Giles.

Contributor:

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

Series:

Harvest/HBJ book

A Harvest/HBJ book

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:

287 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First Harvest/HBJ edition.

Other Title:

History of the blues

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

Contents:

Part 1. Slavery; Nigger Minstrels and coon songs; From emancipation to segregation; From minstrels to ragtime; Early New Orleans jazz and blues; Work and song; W. C. Handy

Part 2. Charley Patton; Henry Thomas 'Ragtime Texas'; Lead Belly; The barrelhouse circuit and the 'Piney Woods'; Migration

Part 3. Crazy blues; Showbiz blues 1: The tent shows; Ma Rainey; Showbiz blues 2: The theatres; Bessie Smith; Women's blues

Part 4. The men start recording; Field recordings; Atlanta; Memphis

Part 5. The Depression; City blues; Blues in St. Louis; Blues in Chicago; The rural South; Blues in the South

Part 6. Post-war blues; The end of an era; Say it loud.

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain by the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1976."

Reprint of the 1977 edition published by Taplinger Publishing Co., New York.

"Cover design by Ernie Smith."

"The front cover illustration is by Allan Manham and the map on p. 47 by Catherine Caufield."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-273 and indexes).

Discography: pages 274-275.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Oakley, Giles. Devil's music.

ISBN:

0156255863

9780156255868

OCLC:

3843163