The Blues: A Very Short Introduction

Author/Contributor(s):	Wald, Elijah
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	08/05/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This VSI provides a brief history of the blues genre's main movements and most influential artists and gives a sense of the breadth of the blues field. Beginning with the music's roots in African and African-American styles, European folk music, and popular forms such as minstrelsy and ragtime, it traces how blues evolved over the course of the twentieth century as both a discrete genre and a basic ingredient in virtually all American pop styles from jazz to hip-hop.