SINGIN’ THE BLUES
Selected Resources in the Sherrod Library
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
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
781.5 C285 The bluesmen; the
story and the music of the men who made the blues.
784.09 B625 Blues.
ML3521 .B39 1986
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.
VTR 2723 Blues accordin’ to Lightnin’
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.
M1630.18.H68 F4 1965 Father of the folk blues the legendary Son
House. (Archives of
M1629.L43 L43 1973 Leadbelly.
(Archives of
M1630.18.M38 B58
1983 Blues in the dark. (Archives
of
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