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birth of the blues
birth of the recording industry
blues
blues beginnings
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commercial music
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folk music
jazz
Mamie Smith
music
music business
music history
sheet music analysis
W.C. Handy
Product details
- ISBN 9780252034879
- Weight: 739g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jan 2010
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had already appeared in sheet music and on recordings. In this examination of early popular blues, Peter C. Muir traces the genre's early history and the highly creative interplay between folk and popular forms, focusing especially on the roles W. C. Handy played in both blues music and the music business.
Long Lost Blues exposes for the first time the full scope and importance of early popular blues to mainstream American culture in the early twentieth century. Closely analyzing sheet music and other print sources that have previously gone unexamined, Muir revises our understanding of the evolution and sociology of blues at its inception.
An internationally recognized pianist, composer, scholar, and conductor, Peter C. Muir is the cofounder and codirector of the Institute for Music and Health in Verbank, New York.
