Screening the Blues

by Paul Oliver

Book Overview

The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black traditions--musical and religious--and tracing the origin of the blues through the dense, many-colored warp and weft of influences and inspiration. He describes "the dozens," Christmas rituals, and the coded (as well as blatant) sexual imagery that has always been a vital element of every popular song tradition. With extensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306803445
• ISBN13: 9780306803444
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"