Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on the Readings Defining the Blues Part I. Africa and the Blues 1. African Influence on the Music of the Americas Richard Alan Waterman 2. From ??Blues: The Conflict of Cultures?? Janheinz Jahn 3. Song Structure and Social Structure Alan Lomax 4. African Influence on the Blues Paul Oliver 5. Africa and the Blues David Evans 6. Echoes of the Jungle? Paul Oliver Part II.
Before and Alongside the Blues 7. From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself Frederick Douglass 8. Slave and Post-Slave LeRoi Jones 9. From ??Primitive Blues and Primitive Jazz?? LeRoi Jones 10. Do the Bombashay: Dance Songs and Routines Paul Oliver 11. From ??Folk and Popular Blues?? David Evans Part II. Folklore and the Blues 12. Folk-Song and Folk-Poetry as Found in the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes Howard W.
Odum 13. Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues Guy B. Johnson 14. I Got the Blues Alan Lomax 15. The Singer and the Bluesman: Formulations of Personality in the Lyrics of the Blues Dennis Jarrett 16. Oral Formulas in the Country Blues John Barnie Part IV. The Blues and Religion 17. From ??My Adventures as a Social Poet?? Langston Hughes 18.
From ??Role and Response?? Charles Keil 19. The Blues as a Secular Religion Rod Gruver 20. The Blues: A Secular Spiritual James H. Cone 21. The Police and the Church Paul Garon Part V. Style 22. The Blues Harp, Parts One and Two Lawrence Hoffman 23. January, 1925 Edward Brooks 24.
From ??The Greening of the Delta Blues?? Stephen Calt and Gayle Dean Wardlow 25. B. B. King: Analysis of the Artist?s Evolving Guitar Technique Jerry Richardson Part VI. Performance 26. Negro ??Blues?? Singers: An Appreciation of Three Coloured Artists Carl Van Vechten 27. Ma Rainey Sterling Brown 28. Happy New Year! with Memphis Minnie Langston Hughes 29.
Liner Notes to black is brown and brown is beautiful Mort Goode 30. Juke Boy?s Blues Mike Leadbitter 31. From ??Big Bobby Blue Bland on Stage?? Charles Keil 32. From ??Wasn?t only my songs, they got my music too?? Barry Lee Pearson Part VII. Racism and Social Protest 33. From ??Living Blues Interview: Eddie Boyd?? Jim O?Neal and Amy O?Neal 34. From The Poetry of the Blues Samuel Charters 35. From ??The Songs: Formulaic Structure and Meaning in Early Downhome Blues?? Jeff Todd Titon Part VIII.
On the Record 36. The Social Context of Black Swan Records Ted Vincent 37. From ??Wasn?t only my songs, they got my music too?? Barry Lee Pearson Part IX. Literature, Criticism, and the Blues 38. Songs Called the Blues Langston Hughes 39. Sonny?s Blues James Baldwin 40. From The Poetry of the Blues Samuel Charters 41. Any Day Now: Black Art and Black Liberation Larry Neal 42.
Popular Songs vs. The Facts of Life S. I. Hayakawa 43. The Blues Roots of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry Sherley A. Williams 44. Introduction to Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature Houston Baker 45. I Used To Be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality, and Domesticity Angela Y.
Davis Part X. The Blues as Influence 46. From ??Charlie Parker: The Burden of Innovation?? Martin Williams 47. A Lighter Shade of Blue: White Country Blues Charles Wolfe 48. Fixin? to Die Eric von Schmidt and Jim Rooney 49. From ??Whites Versus Blacks?? Paul Garon A Blues Discography Select Discography: Pre?World War II Blues Select Discography: Post?World War II Blues, Rhythm and Blues, and Jazz 559 Select Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources Videography The Blues Internet Connection Index.