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Elmore James

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...As an electric guitar and blues innovator, Elmore James’s influence transcended his genre and generation. Born Elmore Brooks into a field hand family in Holmes County, Mississippi in 1918, James began making music at age twelve by playing...

John Lee Hooker

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...The electric guitar and pounding foot of John Lee Hooker helped to establish blues in the post-World War II American musical culture. Born in Mississippi in either 1912 or 1917, Hooker was homeschooled by his mother...

Blues and Jazz

Cheetham David

Cheetham David

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Introduction In the twenty-first century, the fusion or mixing of styles across all aspects of our culture has become a familiar experience. In music, globalization has caused many different musical forms, styles of performance, cultural...

‘Join That Troubled Chorus’: Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds and the Blues

Ross Cole

Ross Cole

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Mute Records : Artists, Business, History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...In the summer of 1930, young Mississippi bluesman Eddie James ‘Son’ House, Jr. travelled with his friends Charley Patton and Willie Brown to Grafton, Wisconsin, for a recording session with Paramount Records. Patton, some...

Sonny Boy Williamson

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...The “original” Sonny Boy Williamson is not to be confused with Sonny Boy Williamson II. Though unrelated, both were blues harmonica players. But where the second Sonny Boy Williamson (born Aleck Miller) played an electrified blues harp...

The Blues and the Development of the African American Working Class before World War II

Roberta Freund Schwartz

Roberta Freund Schwartz

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...Lawrence Levine notes that the blues is “a song style created by generations in the flux of change who desired and needed to meet the future without losing the past, who needed to stand alone and yet remain part of the group, who craved...

Researching the South

David Horn

David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music). He was Director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Together with the blues scholar Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since that time. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IV : Locations: North America

Continuum, 2016

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...The South has two principal centers specializing in the study of the southern culture as a whole, including music. The University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture was established in 1977 as a focal point...

Lead Belly

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...Despite a short professional career, the lessons learned from the mythology around—and performances of—Huddie Ledbetter, known as Lead Belly, have provided a rich insight into the early development of commercial American folk music...

Honky-Tonks and Juke Joints

Robert Kronenburg

Robert Kronenburg is the Roscoe Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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This Must Be The Place : An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...The band are already up when I enter the bar. Before I entered, I could see them through the window from the street, crammed together on a small stage right next to the door. Outside, although the street is wide, the buildings are mostly...

Al Jolson

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...Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) claimed to have been born in 1886 to a Russian-Jewish family in what is now Lithuania. In 1891 his father moved to New York City to secure employment and housing for his family, which followed him to Washington, D.C....