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The bluesman : the musical heritage of Black men and women in the Americas / Julio Finn ; illustrations by Willa Woolston.
LIBRA - Rare ML3521 .F56 1992 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finn, Julio.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blues (Music)--History and criticism.
- Blues (Music).
- Black people--Music--History and criticism.
- Black people.
- Black people--Music.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 256 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Interlink Books, 1992.
- Contents:
- Origins: What is the Blues
- Haiti: The Invisible Religion
- Jamaica: My Name is Obeah
- Cuba: The House of Images
- Brazil: Obatala in the Backlands
- The Drum
- The Dance
- Hoodoo on the Bayou
- The Saints and the Hoodoos
- The Initiations.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Quartet Books Ltd."
- "Cover design and illustration: Linda Dalal Sawaya."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0940793911
- 9780940793910
- 0940793989
- 9780940793989
- OCLC:
- 24142473
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