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Roots Music Resources

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"Looking up at down" : the emergence of blues culture by William Barlow
Call Number: ML3521 .B37 1989
ISBN: 0877225834
Publication Date: 1989
African American music : an introduction by Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby
Call Number: ML3556 .A37 2006
ISBN: 0415941377
Publication Date: 2006
Designed for an introductory course in African American music, this title focuses on musical genres & styles, moving chronologically from folk traditions to modern forms. A final section discusses the aesthetics of African American culture & music.
Blues all around me : the autobiography of B.B. King by B.B. King with David Ritz
Call Number: ML420.K563 A3 2011
ISBN: 0062061038
Publication Date: 2011
Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
Call Number: ML3521 .D355 1999
ISBN: 9780679450054
Publication Date: 1999
Blues people : Negro music in white America by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Call Number: ML3556 .B37 2002
ISBN: 068818474X
Publication Date: 2002
Country music, U.S.A by Bill C. Malone
Call Number: ML3524 .M34 2002
ISBN: 0292752628
Publication Date: 2002
The voice of the blues : classic interviews from Living blues magazine by Jim O'Neal, Amy Van Singel
Call Number: ML3521 .V65 2002
ISBN: 0415936535
Publication Date: 2002

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