Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come from: Lyrics and History

by Robert Springer, John Cowley, Randall Cherry, et al.

Book Overview

Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues and establish the significance of African American popular song as a neglected form of oral history.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934110299
• ISBN13: 9781934110294
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"