Cross the water blues [electronic resource] : African American music in Europe / edited by Neil A. Wynn.
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- "Why I sing the blues" : African American culture in the transatlantic world / Neil A. Wynn
- Taking the measure of the blues / Paul Oliver
- Even philosophers get the blues : feeling bad for no reason / David Webster
- Spirituals to (nearly) swing, 1873-1938 / Jeffrey Green
- Black music prior to the first world war : American origins and German perspectives / Rainer E. Lotz
- Fascination and fear : responses to early jazz in Britain / Catherine Parsonage
- "Un saxophone en mouvement"? : Josephine Baker and the primitivist reception of jazz in Paris in the 1920s / Iris Schmeisser
- Paul Robeson's British journey / Sean Creighton
- Preaching the gospel of the blues : blues evangelists in Britain / Roberta Freund Schwartz
- Whose "Rock Island line"? : originality in the composition of blues and British skiffle / Bob Groom
- The blues blueprint : the blues in the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin / Rupert Till
- "The blues is the truth" : the blues, modernity, and the British blues boom / Leighton Grist
- Lowland blues : the reception of African American blues and gospel music in the Netherlands / Guido van Rijn
- The blues in France / Robert Springer
- Cultural displacement, cultural creation : African American jazz musicians in Europe from Bechet to Braxton / Christopher G. Bakriges.