The Blues Come to Texas. Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick’s Unfinished Book by Alan B. Govenar (ed.) (2019)
In the 1950s and 1960s, any solid university library with a section on folklore, gospel music, American Studies, or African
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Jazz Fiction, Jazz Research – Musing on JAZZ and Related Topics, Popular Culture and Jazz in the Movies
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Gettin’ Around: Jazz, Script, Transnationalism by Jürgen E. Grandt (2018)
While several pioneering attempts by scholars of literature and music to prove traces of literature in jazz and vice versa
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Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins by David F. Garcia (2017)
The period roughly between the 1930s and the 1950s is at the center of this study. That is, how writers,
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The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music’s Golden Age by Bill Dahl (2016)
There can never be enough praise of the blues, a music that has deeply influenced any kind of Western popular
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