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Cross the water blues : African American music in Europe
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- edited by Neil A. Wynn
- Included Title
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- African American music reference
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages : illustrations)
- OCLC
- ocn433147959
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "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