Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Music in American Life
ISBN-10
0252034872
ISBN-13
9780252034879
Edition
New
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 6th, 2010
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
744 grams
Dimensions
26.30 x 18.50 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
BluesBluesPopular musicCultural studiesCultural studies
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The first comprehensive examination of the early blues industry and the music it produced
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.
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