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| Introduction | |
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| Some Caveats | |
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| The Roots of The Blues: 1619-1919 | |
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| Timeline: 1619-1919 | |
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| History and Origins of the Blues | |
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| African Musical Traits in African American Music | |
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| African American Spirituals | |
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| Early Black Secular Music | |
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| The Minstrel Show | |
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| The Early Blues | |
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| Social Conditions at the Birth of the Blues: 1870s-1900 | |
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| The Blues: 1890-1920 | |
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| Subject Matter | |
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| Ragtime and Early Jazz | |
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| Blues Structure | |
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| Learning to Play or Sing the Blues | |
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| Summary | |
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| The 1920s: Documented Beginnings of the Classic and Rural Blues | |
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| Timeline: The 1920s | |
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| Ma Rainey and Her Influence on the Blues | |
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| Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues | |
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| The Recordings and Importance of Bessie Smith | |
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| He Done Me Wrong: Classic Blues Subjects | |
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| Other Blues Women of the 1920s | |
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| Women and the Folk Blues | |
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| Jazz Influences on the Blues | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Folk Blues: 1920-1940 | |
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| Timeline: 1920-1940 | |
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| African American Musical Styles | |
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| Why the Classic Blues Were Recorded Before the Folk Blues | |
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| Blind Lemon Jefferson | |
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| The Jug Bands | |
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| Delta Blues | |
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| Charley Patton | |
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| Robert Johnson: His Life, the Music, the Controversies, and the Legend | |
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| The Impact of Robert Johnson | |
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| Other Mississippi Artists | |
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| Piedmont and Other Regional Styles | |
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| Leadbelly and Lonnie Johnson | |
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| Mr. Charley's Blues: White Blues Performers | |
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| Holy Blues | |
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| The Role of Individual Instruments | |
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| Memphis Minnie: Women and the Folk Blues | |
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| Summary | |
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| Rhythm and Blues and the Beginning of Electric Blues: 1940-1960 | |
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| Timeline: 1940-1960 | |
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| Chicago Blues: 1935-1950 | |
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| Rhythm and Blues | |
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| The Blues Go Electric: T-Bone Walker | |
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| Muddy Waters and the Chicago Delta Sound | |
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| John Lee Hooker and B.B. King | |
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| The Record Business in Postwar America | |
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| Rhythm and Blues vs. the Blues | |
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| Texas Goes to California: The LA R&B scene | |
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| New York and the Doo-wop Groups | |
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| New Orleans | |
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| Rock and Roll and the Blues: 1954-1960 | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Blues Revival: 1960-1980 | |
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| Timeline: 1960-1980 | |
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| The Folk Revival | |
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| The Strange Career of Josh White | |
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| Blues Scholarship and Rediscovered Blues Singers | |
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| Protest Music and the Blues | |
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| The Young, White Blues Singers | |
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| The New Independent Record Labels | |
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| Why the Blues Became Popular? | |
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| The Blues Goes Abroad | |
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| American Blues-Rock Bands | |
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| Jimi Hendrix | |
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| Black Gospel Music | |
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| Soul Music | |
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| Building a New Blues Audience | |
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| Louisiana Blues: The Sound of the Swamp | |
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| The Blues Roll on in Chicago | |
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| B.B. King's Career and Influence | |
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| Blues Music Economics | |
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| Artistic Control | |
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| Summary | |
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| The New Generation of Blues Artists: 1980-Today | |
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| Timeline: 1980-2003 | |
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| The Late 1970s: The Blues Hiatus | |
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| Bonnie Raitt | |
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| Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Austin Blues Scene | |
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| Independent Labels Fill the Void | |
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| The Return of Robert Johnson | |
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| The Emergence of Young, Black Blues Artists | |
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| Blacks, Whites, and the Blues | |
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| Women of the Blues | |
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| The Young Turks: The Blues Rockers | |
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| Zydeco | |
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| Regional Music | |
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| The International Blues | |
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| Current Outlets for the Blues | |
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| The Martin Scorsese Blues Series | |
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| Feel Like Going Home | |
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| The Soul of a Man | |
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| The Road to Memphis | |
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| Warming by the Devil's Fire | |
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| Godfathers and Sons | |
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| Red, White and Blues | |
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| Piano Blues | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Note | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Social Histories | |
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| The Blues and Africa | |
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| The Minstrel Period | |
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| Ragtime | |
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| Social and Musical Background of the Blues | |
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| Classic Blues | |
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| Black Country Blues | |
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| Gospel and Holy Blues | |
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| Urban Blues, Rockabilly, Rock Blues, the Folk and Blues Revivals, British Blues | |
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| Protest Music | |
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| R&B and Soul | |
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| Cajun, Zydeco, and Swamp Pop | |
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| The Blues Today | |
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| Biographies and Autobiographies | |
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| Collections of Lyrics | |
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| Songbooks (Words and Music) | |
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| Record Companies and the Music Business | |
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| Miscellaenous: Record Guides, Regional Blues, etc. | |
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| Discography | |
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| Boxed Sets | |
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| Black Secular Music Before the Blues | |
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| Classic Blues Singers: Women of the 1920s | |
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| Holy Blues | |
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| Jug Bands | |
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| Piedmont Blues | |
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| Mississippi Delta Blues | |
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| Texas Blues | |
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| Songsters | |
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| White Country Blues | |
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| Urban Blues of the 1930s | |
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| Various Instruments | |
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| Social Protest and Commentary | |
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| Chicago: Early Electric Blues | |
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| R&B and Soul | |
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| Chicago: Classic Electric Blues | |
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| White American and the British Blues Revivalists | |
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| Rock and Roll | |
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| Cajun, Zydeco, and Louisiana Swamp Rock | |
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| The New Black Blues Artists | |
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| Young Guns | |
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| Beyond Category | |
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| Instructional Materials and Videos | |
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| Books | |
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| Audio and Visual Materials | |
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| Performance and Documentary Videos | |
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| Index | |