Anyone have any of these? (May duplicate some entries in the History of Spirituals thread, and may not all be relevant-- this is raw material for possible incorporation in the permathread.)

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Blues - books

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (Le Roi Jones). Blues People: Negro Music in White America. orig. 1963; Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Baker, Houston A., Jr. Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature: a vernacular theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. An anthropological, semiotic study of blues from the standpoint of the "music" (words, really) as a matrix or crossroads.

Barlow, William. Looking up at down: the emergence of blues culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Bastin, Bruce. Crying for the Carolines. London: Studio Vista, 1971.

Bastin, Bruce. Red River blues: the blues tradition in the Southeast. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Bogaert, Karel. Blues Lexicon. Antwerp: Standard, 1972.

Calt, Stephen. King of the Delta blues: the life and music of Charlie Patton. Rock Chapel Press, 1988.

Carruth, Hayden. Sitting in: selected writings on jazz, blues, and related topics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, expanded ed. 1993.

Charters, Samuel. Sweet as the showers of rain. New York: Oak Publications, 1977.

Charters, Samuel B. The Blues Makers. New York: Da Capo Press.

Charters, Samuel B. The Bluesmen. New York: Oak Pubs., 1967.

Charters, Samuel B. The poetry of the blues. New York: Oak Publications, 1963.

Charters, Samuel B. The Legacy of the Blues: Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen. New York: Da Capo Press.

Charters, Samuel B. The country blues. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. (orig. 1959.

Cone, James H. The spirituals and the blues: an interpretation. New York: Seabury Press, 1972.

Cook, Bruce. Listen to the blues. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1973.

Cousin Joe. Cousin Joe: blues from New Orleans. University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday: the T-Bone Walker story. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

Davis, Francis. The history of the blues. 1995.

Dixon, Robert M. W. Blues & gospel records, 1902-1943. Storyville Publications, 1982.

Dixon, Robert M. W. Recording the blues. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.

Evans, David. Big road blues: tradition and creativity in the folk blues. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Ferris, William R. Blues from the Delta. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1978.

Finn, Julio. The bluesman: the musical heritage of black men and women in the Americas. London & New York: Quartet Books, 1986.

Garon, Paul. Blues & the poetic spirit. New York: Da Capo Press, 1978.

Garon, Paul. Woman with guitar: Memphis Minnie's blues. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.

Gissing, Werner. Mississippi Delta Blues: Formen und Texte von Robert Johnson (1911-1938) Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1986.

Groom, Bob. The blues revival. London: Studio Vista, 1971.

Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), ed. 1873-1958. Blues; an anthology. Complete words and music of 53 great songs. New York: Macmillan Co. 1972.

Handy, W. C. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. NY: 1941. Reprint, NY: 1970.

Haralambos, Michael. Right on. New York: Drake Publishers, 1975.

Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who: a biographical dictionary. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979.

Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Westport, CT: Negro University Press, 1970.

Keil, Charles. Urban Blues. 1966.

Leadbetter, Mike. Delta Country Blues. Bexhill-On-Sea, Sussex: Blues Unlimited, 1968.

Lomax, Alan. Folk Music of North America. NY: Doubleday, 1958.

Lomax, Alan. The Land Where The Blues Began. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

McKee, Margaret and Fred Chisenhall. Beale Black & Blue: Life and Music on Black America's Main Street. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1981.

Middleton, Richard. Pop music and the blues: a study of the relationship and its significance. London: Gollancz, 1972.

Mitchell, George. Blow My Blues Away. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1971.

Murray, Albert. Stomping the blues. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

NARVAEX, P. THE INFLUENCES OF HISPANIC MUSIC CULTURES ON AFRICAN- AMERICAN BLUES MUSICIANS.

Neff, Robert and Anthony Connor (comp.). Blues (interviews) Boston: D. R. Godine, 1975.

Oakley, Giles. The devil's music: a history of the blues. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1977.

Odum, Howard and Guy B. Johnson. Negro Workaday Songs. Westport, CT: Negro University Press, 1976.

Oliver, Paul. The story of the blues. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1969. (see also: blues discography)

Oliver, Paul. Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Oliver, Paul, ed. New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz: with Spirituals and Ragtime. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.

Oliver, Paul. Blues Fell This Morning: meaning in the blues. 2nd. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Oliver, Paul. Savannah syncopators; African retentions in the blues. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.

Oliver, Paul, ed. The New Grove gospel, blues, and jazz. 1986.

Oliver, Paul. Aspects of the blues tradition. New York: Oak Publications, 1970.

Olsson, Bengt. Memphis blues and jug bands. London: Studio Vista, 1970.

Oster, Harry. Living Country Blues. Detroit: Folklore Associates, 1969.

Palmer, Robert. Deep blues. New York: Viking Press, 1981.

Pearson, Barry Lee. Sounds so good to me: the bluesman's story. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

Pearson, Barry Lee. Virginia Piedmont blues: the lives and art of two Virginia bluesmen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Ramsey, F. R. Been Here and Gone. Rutgers Univ. Press, 1960.

Rowe, Mike. Chicago breakdown. New York: Drake Publishers, 1975.

Sackheim, Eric. The blues line; a collection of blues lyrics. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969.

Shockett, Bernard Irwin. A stylistic study of the blues as recorded by jazz instrumentalists, 1917-1931. University Microfilms International, 1977. Thesis--New York University, 1964. rarely cited in modern research but a significant study.

Spencer, Jon Michael. Blues and evil. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Stewart-Baxter, Derrick. Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.

Titon, Jeff Todd, ed. Downhome blues lyrics: an anthology from the post-World War II era. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Titon, Jeff Todd. Early downhome blues: a musical and cultural analysis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Tracy, Steven C. Going to Cincinnati: a history of the blues in the queen city. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Tracy, Steven C. Langston Hughes & the Blues. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Van Der Merwe, Peter. Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Wolfe, Charles K. The life and legend of Leadbelly. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.

Blues - references

Cooper, David Edwin. International Bibliography of Discographies: Classical Music and Jazz & Blues, 1962-1972: a reference book for record collectors. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1975.

Fahey, John. Charley Patton. London: Studio Vista, 1970. Discography of Charley Patton, Henry Sims, Bertha Lee, Willie Brown, Louise Johnson, and Walter (Buddy Boy) Hawkins.

Ferris, William R. Mississippi Black folklore; a research bibliography and discography. University and College Press of Mississippi, 1971.

Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The. Colin Larkin, compiler and editor. 2nd ed. NY: Stockton Press, 1995. 6 v.

Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1979.

Hart, Mary L., Brenda M. Eagles and Lisa N. Howarth. The Blues: A Bibliographic Guide. Intro. by William Ferris. New York: Garland, 1989.

Lornell, Kip. Virginia's blues, country & gospel records, 1902-1943: an annotated discography. University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Leadbitter, Mike. Blues records, January 1943 to December 1966. Hanover Books, 1968.

Pareles, Jon and Patricia Romanowski, eds. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll. New York: Summit Books, 1983.

Ruppli, Michel. Atlantic Records: a discography. Greenwood Press, 1979.

Ruppli, Michel. The Prestige label: a discography. Greenwood Press, 1980.

Rust, Brian. Blues Records, 1924-1942. London: Blues Unlimited.

Santelli, Robert. The Big Book of Blues - a Biographical Encyclopedia. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.

Vann, Kimberly R. Black Music in Ebony: An Annotated Guide to the Articles in Ebony Magazine. Chicago: Columbia College Center for Black Music Research, 1990.

Blues - anthologies

Blues, an Anthology. ed. by W. C. Handy. Revised by Jerry Silverman. NY: Collier Books, 1972. (earlier eds., 1926, 1949).

The Blues Line: A Collection of Blues Lyrics. comp. by Eric Sackheim. NY: Grossman Publishers, 1969.

Country Blues Songbook. comp. by Stefan Grossman, Hal Grossman, and Stephen Calt. NY: Oak Publications, 1973. A clear indication that not all blues is 12-bar.

Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era. Selected, transcribed and edited by Jeff Todd Titon. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981; 2nd ed. 1990.

Blues - discography (selected)

Asch Recordings AA-1 - "The Asch Recordings, 1939-1947; Vol. 1: Blues, Gospel and Jazz."

Asch Recordings AA-2 - "The Asch Recordings, 1939-1947; Vol. 1: Blues, Gospel and Jazz."

Columbia Records G-30008 - "The Story of the Blues" (2 LPs) 1969. This set was compiled by Paul Oliver to accompany his book of the same name. Probably the best survey of this medium.

Folkways Records FJ-2801 - "Jazz - The South" (1 LP) 1958. Precursors to the jazz style, edited by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.

Folkways Records FJ 2802 - "Jazz - The Blues" (1 LP) 1966. includes Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong.

Folkways Records FA-2691 - "Music Down Home: An Introduction to Negro Folk Music, USA" (2 LPs).

New World Records NW-252 - "Roots of the Blues" (1 LP) 1977. produced by Alan Lomax, this is an excellent collection, beautifully annotated, of (mostly) field-recordings of pre-blues styles.

New World Records NW-259 - "Cuttin' The Boogie: Piano Blues and Boogie Woogie, 1926-1941" (1 LP) 1977.

New World Records NW-256 - "Sweet and Low Blues: Big Bands and Territory Bands of the 20s" (1 LP) 1977.

New World Records NW-278 - "Georgia Sea Island Songs" (1 LP) 1977. includes some of the music found in Parrish.

Okeh Records (1918-1969) is directly associated with the release of many significant "race" records. In 1920, it issued "Crazy Blues" by Mamie Smith, the first blues record by a black artist. Epic Records (CBS) released a 5-volume LP set of compilations in the '80s. These include Okeh re- releases and some previously unissued Columbia recordings. The liner notes for these collections are quite good. Epic EG-37318 - "Chicago Blues" (2 LPs) 1982, reissues: includes Brownie McGhee, Memphis Minnie, Johnny Shines, Muddy Waters, Big Joe Williams, others. Epic EG-37649 - "Rhythm & Blues" (2 LPs) 1982, reissues: includes Smiley Lewis, Big Maybelle, Titus Turner, Johnnie Ray, several vocal groups and orchestras, even Little Richard.

RBF Records RBF-11 - "Blues Rediscoveries" (1 LP) 1966. Compiled by Samuel B. Charters.