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Encyclopedia of the Blues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1274

Encyclopedia of the Blues

This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.

A Few Honest Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

A Few Honest Words

“This book’s combination of interviews and history makes for an entertaining study of the heart of American roots music.” —Library Journal In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree—a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan Osborne, and Merle Travis, it’s no wonder that the state is most often associated with folk, country, and bluegrass music. But Kentucky’s contribution to American music is much broader: It’s the rich and resonant cello of Ben Sollee, the velvet crooning of jazz great Helen Humes, an...

Collection Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Collection Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Written by experts in the field, Collection Development: Preparing Today's Bibliographers for Tomorrow's Libraries offers librarians proven and effective suggestions on how to solve and alleviate common problems in order to make your library more efficient and beneficial to patrons. Discussing concerns about cooperative collection development, locally available data, managing personnel at varying career stages, vendors, selecting the right mix of resources, and serials collection management, this valuable guide gives you insight into the future of collection development and keeps you up-to-date on important technological advancements. For both beginners and professionals, Collection Development addresses your vexing questions that librarians continually face to assist you in creating a cost-effective and resourceful library.

The Life and Music of Booker
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White

Booker “Bukka” White (1905–1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Booker “Bukka” White: Recalling the Blues, David W. Johnson traces the trajectory of White’s life from his early years in Chickasaw and Grenada Counties, Mississippi, through his imprisonment in the notorious Mississippi State Penal Farm in the late 1930s, to making a new life for himself in Memphis, Tennessee. For years only a name on old 78 records—and believed by some to be dead—White was “rediscovered” by John Fahey and ED Denson in the s...

Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1818

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1901
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales

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The Blues Encyclopedia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1279

The Blues Encyclopedia

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. A to Z in format, this work covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues.

Transit Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Transit Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1885
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Public Documents of Massachusetts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1402

Public Documents of Massachusetts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1900
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Blues Encyclopedia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1274

The Blues Encyclopedia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-07-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.