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Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast

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Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast - Bastin, Bruce
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A Classic of Blues Literature inductee into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame Drawing on archives and interviews with musicians, Red River Blues remains an acclaimed work of blues scholarship. Bruce Bastin traces the origins of the music to the turn of the twentieth century, when African Americans rejected slave songs, worksongs, and minstrel music in favor of a potent new vehicle for secular musical expression. Bastin looks at the blues' early emerging popularity and its spread via the Great Migration, delves ...

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Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast 1995, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252065217

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Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast 1986, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252012136

Hardcover