SINGIN’ THE BLUES

 

Selected Resources in the Sherrod Library

 

 

REFERENCE

 

ML128.N3 E34                      Top 10’s and trivia of rock & roll and rhythm & blues, 1950-1973.

ML100 .N48 2001                New Grove dictionary of music and musicians.

ML102.J3 N48 1988            New Grove dictionary of jazz.

 

           

NON-FICTION

 

            M1630.18.G759 C7            Country blues songbook.

ML2811 .S48                         The world of soul; Black America's contribution to the pop music scene.

            ML3561.J3 O89                   Living country blues.

            784.09 J717                          Big star fallin' mama; five women in Black music.

            ML3521 .K83 1999eb          Africa and the blues. (electronic book)

            ML1055 .D59                        Recording the blues.

ML3521 .D355 1998            Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday.

ML3521 .D36 1995              History of the blues.

ML3561.B63 T58 1994        Early downhome blues : a musical and cultural analysis.

ML3521 .O42 1990              Blues fell this morning : meaning in the blues.

ML3521 .C5                          Roots of the blues : an African search.

ML3556 .O18 1977              Devil's music : a history of the blues.

ML3561.B63 T58                  Early downhome blues : a musical and cultural analysis.

781.57 C385l                        Legacy of the blues : a glimpse into the art and the lives of twelve great bluesmen : an informal study.

784.09 St49                           Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers.

781.57 C385                         Country blues.

784.7 H212                            Right on : From blues to soul in Black America.

781.57 M961                        Stomping the blues.

ML410.H18 B6                      Father of the blues: An autobiography.

ML420.R274L5                      Mother of the blues: A study of Ma Rainey.

ML420.S667 A7                    Bessie.

ML394 .R66                           Bossmen: Bill Monroe & Muddy Waters.

ML420.L277 W6 1992          The life and legend of Leadbelly. (Archives of Appalachia)

781.5 C285                           The bluesmen; the story and the music of the men who made the blues.

784.09 B625                          Blues.

ML3521 .B39 1986               Red River blues : the blues tradition in the Southeast.

781.57 K265                          Urban blues.

ML420.K473 D36 1998eb  Blues Boy the life and music of B.B. King.

ML420.H58 A3 1973           Lady sings the blues.

 

VIDEOTAPE

 

VTR 2723                               Blues accordin’ to LightninHopkins: The sun’s gonna shine.

VTR 1011                               Wild women don’t have the blues.

VTR 1469                               Land where the blues began.

VTR 5435                               That rhythm—those blues.

VTR 1361                               W. C. Handy.

 

SOUND RECORDINGS

 

M1630.18.H68 F4 1965      Father of the folk blues the legendary Son House. (Archives of Appalachia)

            M1629.L43 L43 1973           Leadbelly. (Archives of Appalachia)

            M1630.18.M38 B58 1983   Blues in the dark. (Archives of Appalachia) 

 

Many more books about Blues Music are available in Sherrod Library.  Check the online catalog.

 

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