Red River Blues
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African American
African American music
American music history
American South
Atlanta
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balladry
ballads
banjo and blues music
Barbeque Bob
Blind Blake
Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Willie McTell
blues
blues artists
Blues Hall of Fame
blues history
blues music
blues songs
bluesmen
Brownie McGhee
Buddy Moss
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evolution of blues music
Gary Davis
Georgia
harmonica
history
Library of Congress recordings
Lomax field recordings
medicine shows
minstrel shows
music
music history
music of the South
musicians
Newton County
North Carolina
origins of blues music
piano
Pink Anderson
prisoners
recordings
secular music
Sonny Terry
South Carolina
string bands
theory
Virginia
Product details
- ISBN 9780252065217
- Weight: 594g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1995
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Classic of Blues Literature inductee into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame
Drawing on archives and interviews with musicians, Red River Blues remains an acclaimed work of blues scholarship. Bruce Bastin traces the origins of the music to the turn of the twentieth century, when African Americans rejected slave songs, worksongs, and minstrel music in favor of a potent new vehicle for secular musical expression. Bastin looks at the blues' early emerging popularity and its spread via the Great Migration, delves into a wealth of field recordings, and looks at the careers of Brownie McGhee, Blind Boy Fuller, Curly Weaver, Sonny Terry, and many other foundational artists.
