Introduction
Published in Oxford University Press eBooks • Aug 3, 2010
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Authors:
Elijah Wald
Abstract
Blues music first swept the United States in the early 1910s, remained a driving force in the pop mainstream for some six decades, and continues to be played and heard around the world. Once performed by neighborhood bands, street corner guitarists, and theatrical divas, blues is now routinely heard...