Long Lost Blues
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Long Lost Blues

Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920

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Long Lost Blues

Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920

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About This Book

Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had already appeared in sheet music and on recordings. In this examination of early popular blues, Peter C. Muir traces the genre's early history and the highly creative interplay between folk and popular forms, focusing especially on the roles W. C. Handy played in both blues music and the music business.

Long Lost Blues exposes for the first time the full scope and importance of early popular blues to mainstream American culture in the early twentieth century. Closely analyzing sheet music and other print sources that have previously gone unexamined, Muir revises our understanding of the evolution and sociology of blues at its inception.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780252056048
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. A Word about the Music Examples
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Popular Blues Industry, 1912–1920
  10. 2. The Identity and Idiom of Early Popular Blues
  11. 3. Curing the Blues with the Blues
  12. 4. The Blues of W. C. Handy
  13. 5. The Creativity of Early Southern Published Blues
  14. 6. Published Proto-Blues and the Evolution of the Twelve-Bar Sequence
  15. Appendix: Titular Blues, 1912–1915
  16. Notes
  17. Major Works Consulted
  18. General Index
  19. Song Index
  20. Series Page