| Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920 Contributor(s): Muir, Peter C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252034872 ISBN-13: 9780252034879 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $123.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2010 Annotation: The first comprehensive examination of the early blues industry and the music it produced |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Blues - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 781.643 |
| LCCN: 2009015046 |
| Series: Music in American Life (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7" W x 10" (1.60 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |