Blues

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the mult...

Christine McVie - born Christine Perfect - was the quintessentially English rock star, as both the backbone and the beating heart of Fleetwood Mac....

Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and blues fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume includes over 150 of the genres greatest players ...

Chicago blues musicians parlayed a genius for innovation and emotional honesty into a music revered around the world. As the blues evolves, it cont...

In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los...

The emotional, epic story of James Cornbread Harrisa self-proclaimed blessed dude and one of Minneapoliss most influential musicians From the heart...

Stevie Ray Vaughan bluesman guitarist and legend was only 35 at the time of his death but in his brief lifetime he managed to revitalize the b...

The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo Ink Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational produce...

The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo Ink Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational produce...

The story of Black British music is a five-hundred-year journey from the court of King Henry VIII to the Ends of South London; from Africa to the C...

Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tap...

**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in...