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Blues

Author: Chris Handyside
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Gives the history of blues music, from its origins in the oral traditions of slaves through its development into a leading style in the 1920s in the United States and its influence upon current musical trends.
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
Material Type: Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Chris Handyside
ISBN: 1403481482 9781403481481 1410918114 9781410918116
OCLC Number: 60931338
Description: 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: What is the Blues? --
The seeds of the Blues --
The early forms of the Blues --
Folk and Delta Blues --
Blues goes on the road --
Early Blues recordings --
City Blues roots --
Folk Blues in the 1930s --
The birth of modern Blues in Chicago --
Jump Blues --
Blues in Britain --
Blues in the 1950s and 1960s folk revival --
Rock 'n' Roll and the Blues --
The Blues lives on.
Responsibility: Christopher Handyside.
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Gives the history of blues music, from its origins in the oral traditions of slaves through its development into a leading style in the 1920s in the United States and its influence upon current musical trends.

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