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Yonder Come The Blues 
Paul Oliver, Tony Russell, Robert
M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard RyeCambridge University Press, 2001 Paperback. 372pp. b&w illustrations £14.95
PAUL OLIVER is Director of the Centre for Vernacular Architecture Studies at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University. As well as having published works on architecture, he has researched and published extensively on blues and African American music, including Blues Fell This Morning, Conversation with the Blues and Songsters and Saints. TONY RUSSELL is a freelance writer on blues, jazz and country music. He was editor for many years of the journals Old Time Music and Jazz Express and was the compiler and author of the compact disc series The Blues Collection. He is the author of The Blues From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray (1997). ROBERT M. W. DIXON is Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. The fourth edition of his Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943 was published in 1997. JOHN GODRICH, who died in 1991, published discographies of the blues in specialist journals. He was co-author with Robert Dixon of Blues and Gospel Records in its first three editions. A noted discographer, HOWARD RYE contributes an essay for this book. |
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Yonder
Come the Blues
combines three influential and much-quoted books: Savannah Syncopators,
Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues. Updated
with additional new essays, the book discusses the crucial early development
of the blues as a music of Blacks in the United States, explaining some
of the most significant factors that shaped this music. Together, these
three texts emphasise the significance of the African heritage, the mutuality
of much white and black music and the role of recording in consolidating
the blues, thus demonstrating the importance of these formative elements
in its complex but combined socio-musical history. Redressing some of
the misconceptions that persist in writing on African-American music,
this book will be essential reading for all enthusiasts of blues, jazz
and country music and will be important for students of African-American
studies and music, popular music and popular culture.