Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues
African American music in global perspective University of Illinois Press, Urbana, (2008)Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index..Abstract
Contents: Bourdon, blue notes, and pentatonism in the blues : an Africanist perspective / Gerhard Kubik ― "They cert'ly sound good to me" : sheet music, Southern vaudeville, and the commercial ascendancy of the blues / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff ― Abbe Niles, blues advocate / Elliott S. Hurwitt ― The hands of blues guitarists / Andrew M. Cohen ― From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine : nicknames of blues singers / David Evans ― Preachin' the blues : a textual linguistic analysis of Son House's "Dry spell blues" / Luigi Monge ― Some ramblings on Robert Johnson's mind : critical analysis and aesthetic value in Delta blues / James Bennighof ― "Guess these people wonder what I'm singing" : quotation and reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis blues" / Katharine Cartwright ― Beyond the mushroom cloud : a decade of disillusion in Black blues and gospel song / Bob Groom ― Houston Creoles and zydeco : the emergence of an African American urban popular style / John Minton.