Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition In The Southeast

Music In American Life series

Publisher's description:

The complete story of the origins and evolution of the black American blues tradition, drawing extensively on oral history interviews.

The opening chapters are among the best things ever published on the blues. It's a thoughtful, substantial, solidly constructed, information packed work, and should be in every serious blues enthusiast's library. But more than that, it is a major contribution to the study of popular culture.

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