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University of Illinois Press Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920 (Music in American Life)

Name: Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920 (Music in American Life)
Brand: University of Illinois Press
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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.

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Brand: University of Illinois Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0252034872
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Blues
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 January 2010
Listed Since: 27 March 2009

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