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The Country Blues
The popularity of the American musical form is illustrated in an account of its origins and development that emphasizes its relation to the lives and culture of black performers
The Legacy Of The Blues
Blues is a language,one which has evolved its own rules and which is the sole property of a culture always forced to the periphery of white society. As such it is a political …
Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn
Walking a Blues Road
Samuel Charters belongs to a small group of writers about music whose work has transformed their -subject-without his discoveries, insights and interventions, the history of blues …
Things to Do Around Piccadilly: and other London Street Poems
The Poetry of the Blues
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the …
Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After The Ed Sullivan Show
"Poet, novelist and musicologist Samuel Charters steps on nobody's blue suede shoes in this novella, which consists of a single, unbroken monologue that wails and jangles like an …
What Paths, What Journeys: New & Selected Poems
Memorials of Service in India
Memorials of Service in India is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1865. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as …
Brother-Souls
John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were-in Holmes's words-"e;Brother Souls."e; Both were …
That's Got 'Em!
Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth …