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Blues, how do you do? : Paul Oliver and the transatlantic story of the blues / Christian O'Connell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connell, Christian, 1980-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oliver, Paul, 1927-2017.
- Oliver, Paul.
- Blues (Music)--Historiography.
- Blues (Music).
- Blues (Music)--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white "outsider" observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be.
- Contents:
- Beginnings : the early revival
- Blues fell this morning : the blues and black life
- "You asked me about it, so I'm tellin' you" : representation through oral history and photography
- Tracing the tradition : history and "invention"
- The blues narrative : a story of triumph over tragedy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-12112-X
- OCLC:
- 918594816
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.7786504
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