The History Of The Blues

This volume offers a deep look into the Blues. Author Michael V. Uschan describes this quintessentially American music, charting its evolution out of African American field hollers, slave songs, and spirituals in the late nineteenth century, its emergence from the South and spreading through the U.S. in the early twentieth century, and its influence on later forms of music, including R and B and Rock-and-Roll.

Traces the development of one of the world's greatest music styles and considers the changing attitudes towards the blues on the part of both blacks and whites, ranging from Count Basie to Bonnie Raitt. Starting from the 1900's the significance of the Blue

A comprehensive look at the history of blues music, from its origins to the present time, including the musicians involved in creating that history.

Anecdotes, reminiscences, first-hand reports, and appreciative commentary combine to provide a celebratory account of the blues' development from turn-of-the-century New Orleans honky-tonk and Mississippi Delta barrelhouse to today's urban blues.

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"Each volume in this series provides a month-by-month survey of key articles, news stories, feature columns and record releases in a given year ... a comprehensive index enables readers to locate specific mentions of record artists, disk jockeys and talent managers in the Rhythm and Blues field, as well as music companies, nightclubs, theaters and radio stations who helped promote this ... music form"--Page 4 of cover

Discusses the history of blues music from its origins in the Mississippi Delta to its peak in Chicago right after World War II to its current popularity with whites in urban clubs. Includes a timeline showing how events in the larger society had an impact on the music.