The story of the blues / Paul Oliver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliver, Paul, 1927-2017, author.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

Blues musicians--United States.

Blues musicians.

African American musicians.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

176 pages : illusustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chilton Book Company, [1969]

Contents:

Long Hot Summer Days. The background of Afro-American music in the meeting of cultures after the Civil War

Cottonfield Hollers. Origins of blues in work songs, field hollers and the ballads of the songsters

Down the Dirt Roads. Traditions of plantations around the Mississippi Delta and the emergent blues techniques

Froggy Bottom to Buckhead. Blues singers of Texas, Alabama and Georgia; development of guitar and piano music

Bed Slats an' All. String, washboard and jug bands; Beale Street blues and the medicine show entertainers

Rabbit Foot and Toby Time. Minstrel and tent shows, vaudeville theatre circuits and the women 'classic blues' singers

Struttin' That Thing. Negro migrations in the Jazz Era; piano music in the South, in Chicago and Detroit

Walking the Basses. Urban blues and boogie-woogie of St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and the Mid-Western cities

Hard Time Everywhere. Blues and the record industry: themes and personalities of the post-depression years

Chicago Breakdown. Blues bands of Chicago's South and West Sides in the 'thirties and 'forties

- Back to Mississippi. The continuity of the rural blues tradition in Mississippi before the Second World War

Travelin' Men. Guitar rags and harmonica breakdowns in the Eastern States, the Carolinas and Tennessee

The Number One Scab. Barrelhouse piano; the effects of recording; Kansas City blues and the migration to the West Coast

King Biscuit Time. Blues on the radio networks; post-war blues centres of the South and the urban North

Blues and Trouble. Shythm and blues; the rise of modern styles; blues and the international audience.

Notes:

Maps on lining papers.

"Music examples": p. 169-170.

"Designed by Ian Cameron and Jacque Solomons."

Includes bibliographies of periodicals, books and records (pages 171-174).

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

OCLC:

16116