Ramsey
Library Research Guides
The Blues in Ramsey
All music guide to the blues : the definitive guide to the blues, 3rd ed. Ed. by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2003. UNCA REFERENCE ML156.4.B6 A45 2003.
[See also Web
version]
The Blackwell guide to blues records. Ed. by Paul Oliver. Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Reference, 1989. UNCA REFERENCE ML156.4.B6 B6 1989
Guinness encyclopedia of popular music, 2nd ed. Ed. by Colin
Larkin. New York: Stockton Press, 1995. UNCA REFERENCE ML 102 .P66 G84 1995
v.1-6
Harris, Sheldon. Blues who's who : a biographical dictionary of Blues singers.
New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House, 1979. UNCA REFERENCE ML102.B6 H3
Hart, Mary L., Brenda M. Eagles, and Lisa N. Howorth. The blues : a
bibliographical guide. Intro. by William Ferris. New York : Garland, 1989. UNCA
REFERENCE ML128.B49 B14 1989
Herzhaft, Gerard. Encyclopedia of the blues. Fayetteville : University
of Arkansas Press, 1992. UNCA REFERENCE ML102.B6 H39 1992
Santelli, Robert. The big book of blues : a biographical encyclopedia.
New York : Penguin, 1993. UNCA GENERAL ML102.B6 S26 1993
Sonnier, Austin M. A guide to the blues : history, who's who, research sources.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. UNCA REFERENCE ML3521 .S58 1994
Stambler, Irwin, and Lydon Stambler. Folk and blues : the encyclopedia.
New York: St. Martin's, 2001. UNCA REFERENCE ML 102 .F66 S74 2001
General Books
Baker, Houston A. Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature : a vernacular
theory. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987. UNCA GENERAL PS153.N5 B23
1987
Baraka, Imamu Amiri. Blues people : Negro music in white America. New
York : W. Morrow, 1971. UNCA GENERAL ML3556 .J73
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, and Amina Baraka. The music : reflections on jazz and
blues. New York : Morrow, 1987. UNCA GENERAL ML3556 .B17 1987
Barlow, William. "Looking up at down" : the emergence of blues
culture. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1989. UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .B36
1989
Bastin, Bruce. Red River blues : the blues tradition in the Southeast.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1986. UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .B39 1986
Calt, Stephen, and Gayle Wardlow. King of the Delta blues : the life and music
of Charlie Patton. Newton, N.J. : Rock Chapel Press, 1988. UNCA GENERAL
ML420.P323 C3 1988
Charters, Samuel Barclay. Country Blues. With a new introduction
by the author. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. UNCA GENERAL ML3556.C475 C7
1975
Charters, Samuel Barclay. The roots of the blues : an African search.
New York : Putnam, 1982. UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .C5 1982
Cohn, Lawrence, et al. Nothing but the blues : the music and the musicians.
New York : Abbeville Press, 1993. UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .N68 1993
Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday : the T-Bone Walker story. Foreword
by B.B. King. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1987. UNCA GENERAL ML419
.W27 D3 1987
Davis, Angela Y. Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma"
Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. New York : Pantheon Books, 1998.
UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .D355 1998
Davis, Francis. The history of the blues. New York : Hyperion, 1995.
UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .D36 1995
Evans, David. Big road blues : tradition and creativity in folk blues.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982. UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .E9 1982
Finn, Julio. The bluesman : the musical heritage of Black men and women in the
Americas. Illus. by Willa Woolston. New York : Interlink Books, 1992. UNCA
GENERAL ML3521 .F56 1992
Gordon, Robert. Can't be satisfied : the life and times of Muddy
Waters. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002. UNCA POP READ ML420.M748 G67 2002
Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black pearls : blues queens of the 1920s. New
Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1988. UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .H38 1988
Harrison, David. Blues : a photographic documentary. New York :
Crescent Books, 1997. UNCA GENERAL ML89.H37 5 1997
Hay, Fred J. Goin' Back to Sweet Memphis: Conversations with the
Blues. Transcribed, edited, and annotated by Fred. J. Hay; illustrated by George D. Davidson. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2001. UNCA GENERAL ML394 .H42 2001
Jimoh, A. Yemisi. Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in
Paradox. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2002. UNCA GENERAL PS374.N4 J56 2002
Jones, Hettie. Big star fallin' mama : five women in Black music. New
York : Viking, 1995. UNCA JUV LIT ML82 .J65 1995
Joseph, Pleasant "Cousin Joe," and Harriet J. Ottenheimer. Cousin
Joe : blues from New Orleans. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987. UNCA
GENERAL ML420.C72 A3 1987
Keil, Charles. Urban blues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1966.
UNCA GENERAL ML3556 .K43
Kubik, Gerhard. Africa and the blues. Jackson : University Press of
Mississippi, 1999.
UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .K83 1999
Lomax, Alan. The land where the blues began. New York : Delta, 1995.
UNCA POP READ ML3521 .L64 1995
Lomax, John. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter. New York : Macmillan
Co., 1947 UNCA GENERAL ML429.L68 A3 1947
Nicholson, Robert. Mississippi : the blues today! Photographs by Logan
Young. New York: Da Capo Press, 1999. UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .N53 1999
Oliver, Paul. Blues fell this morning : meaning in the blues, 2nd ed.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990. UNCA GENERAL ML3521 .O42 1990
Oliver, Paul. The story of the blues. Philadelphia : Chilton, 1969.
UNCA GENERAL ML3561.J3 O47
Palmer, Robert. Deep blues. New York : Viking, 1981. UNCA GENERAL
ML3521 .P34
Powell, Richard J., et al. The blues aesthetic : black culture and modernism.
Washington, D.C. : Washington Project for the Arts, 1989. UNCA GENERAL NX512.3.A35 P68
1989
Sackheim, Eric, comp. The blues line : a collection of blues lyrics.
Ill. by Jonathan Shahn. New York : Schirmer Books, 1975. UNCA GENERAL PS593.L8 S24
Scott, Frank. The Down Home guide to the blues. Pennington, N.J. : A
Capella Books, 1991. UNCA REFERENCE ML156.4.B6 S26 1991
Titon, Jeff Todd, comp. Downhome blues lyrics : an anthology from the
post-World War II era. Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1981. UNCA GENERAL ML54.6 .D69
The voice of the blues : classic interviews from Living blues magazine. Ed. by Jim O'Neal and Amy Van Singel. New York: Routledge 2002. UNCA GENERAL
Welding, Pete, and Toby Byron, eds. Bluesland : portraits of twelve
major American blues masters. New York : Dutton, 1991. UNCA GENERAL ML400 .B595
1991
Videos/DVDs
American roots music [videorecording] / A Ginger Group production ; directed by Jim Brown ; produced by Jim Brown, Sam Pollard and Jeff Rosen ; written by Charles Wolfe. New York: Palm Pictures, 2001. UNCA DVD ML3551 .A54 2001 pts.1-2/pts.3-4
Black is... Black ain't [videorecording] /
Producer/director, Marlon T. Riggs ; co- producer, Nicole Atkinson ; co-director/editor,
Christiane Badgley. San Francisco : California Newsreel, 1995. UNCA VIDEO CASS E185.625
.B533 1995
American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. Equally devastating,
the late Marlon Riggs argued, have been the definitions of "blackness" African
Americans impose upon one another which contain and reduce the black experience. In this
film, Riggs meets a cross-section of African Americans grappling with the paradox of
numerous, often contradictory definitions of blackness. He shows many who have felt
uncomfortable and even silenced within the race because their complexion, class,
sexuality, gender, or speech has rendered them "not black enough," or
conversely, "too black." The film scrutinizes the identification of
"blackness" with masculinity as well as sexism, patriarchy and homophobia in
black America.
Blues [videorecording] / executive producer, Genesis
Productions ; producers, Sandra Turbow, Herb Silvers ; director, Kip Walton ;
Skylark/Savoy Productions. Century Home Video, 1982. UNCA VIDEO CASS M1630.18 .A44 1981
v.3-4
Includes performances by B.B. King, Linda Hopkins, Leata Galloway, Ernie Andrews, Eddie
"Cleanhead" Vinson, Vi Redd, "Pee Wee" Crayton, Joe Williams, Paula
Kelly, Esther Phillips, Bobby McGee, Buddy Guy, Jr. Wells, Dorothy Donigan, and others.
Bluesland [videorecording] : a portrait in American music / Toby Byron/Multiprises ; produced by Toby Byron, Richard Saylor ; directed by Ken Mandel ; written by Ralph Meyers, Toby Byron, Ken Mandel. New York : BMG Video, 1993.
UNCA VIDEO CASS
This video explores the blues -- with all its poetic irony and sly humor, its eroticism and timeless power. It traces the roots of the blues from the beginning of the 20th Century through the Mississippi Delta to Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago. It includes music by: Son House, Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Jimmy Rushing, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Dinah Washington and many others.
Color adjustment [videorecording] / producer,
director, writer, Marlon T. Riggs ; producer, Vivian Kleiman. San Francisco : California
Newsreel, 1991.
UNCA VIDEO CASS PN1992.8.A34 C65 1991
Analyzes the evolution of television's earlier, unflattering portrayal of blacks from
1948 until 1988 where they are depicted as prosperous, having achieved the American dream,
a portrayal that is inconsistent with reality.
Devil got my woman [videorecording] : Blues at Newport
1966 / featuring Skip James, Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Rev. Pearly Brown, Bukka
White. Cambridge, Mass. : Vestapol Productions, 1996. UNCA VIDEO CASS M1630.18
.D48 1996
Contents: Devil got my woman ; I'm so glad ; Worried blues / Skip James --
Baby you're killing me ; Old lady blues ; Please don't put your daddy outdoors
; 100th man / Bukka White -- Forever on my mind / Howlin' Wolf -- Meet me in
the bottom ; How many more years ; Dust my broom / Rev. Pearly Brown -- Keep
your lamp trimmed and burning ; Pure religion ; It's a mean old world / Pearly
Brown
Ethnic notions [videorecording] / presented by
California Newsreel ; produced, written and directed by Marlon Riggs ; edited by Deborah
Hoffmann. San Francisco : California Newsreel, 1986. UNCA VIDEO CASS E185 .E84 1986
Traces the evolution of deeply rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black
prejudice.
Ladies sing the blues [videorecording] / Minnesota
Studio, Inc. ; executive producers, William Semans and Jonathon Lazear ; producer, Tom
Jenz ; writer/narrator, Leigh Kamman. New York: View Video, 1988. UNCA VIDEO CASS ML3521
.L32 1988
Includes performances by Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne,
Ethel Waters, Peggy Lee, Helen Humes, Connee Boswell, Ida Cox, Sister Rosetta Tharp, and
Sarah Vaughan.
Mance Lipsomb and Lightnin' Hopkins [videorecording] / John S. Ullman, producer ; Ronald Ciro, director ; produced for Yazoo Video by George Sempepos ; directed by Stefan Grossman & George Sempepos. Yazoo Video, 2000. UNCA DVD M1630.18.L45 M3 2000
Muddy Waters [videorecording] : Can't Be Satisfied / Tremolo Productions in association with Wellspring Productions, American Masters and Channel Four Television produced and directed by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon. New York: Wellspring Media, 2002. UNCA DVD Ml420.M478 C36 2002
The first authoritative documentary of the man who invented electric blues and paved the road for rock and roll. Provides a compelling and honest look at the real Muddy, beyond and behind the stage presence. Includes interviews with members of Waters' bands, family members, and ex-girlfriends; and archival interviews and concert footage
Out of the blacks into the blues [videorecording] / Neyrac
Film. Newton, N.J. : Yazoo Video, 1992. UNCA VIDEO CASS ML3521 .O88 1992 pt.1-2
Includes performances by Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Roosevelt Sykes, Robert Pet
Williams, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Junior Wells & Buddy
Guy, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Mance Lipscomb, Brownie McGhee, and Sonny Terry.
Repercussions : a celebration of African-American music [videorecording]
/ Third Eye Productions Ltd. for Channel Four in association with RM Arts ; directed by
Geoffrey Haydon and Dennis Marks. Chicago : Home Vision, 1984. UNCA VIDEO CASS M1670 .R4
1984 v.1-4
A series of films originally made for television describing the roots of popular music
forged in the Americas from the union of the Old World music of Africa and Europe.
Rev. Gary Davis and Sonny Terry [videorecording] / Yazoo Records, 2001. UNCA DVD M1630.18.D385 R4 2001
The Search for Robert Johnson [videorecording] / Sony Music Entertainment, 1992. UNCA DVD ML420.J735 S4 1992
Documentary, using the research of blues scholars Mack McCormick and Gayle Dean
Wardlow, on the man many believe was the king of Mississippi Delta country blues.
That rhythm-- those blues [videorecording] / a GTN production ;
presented by WGBH/Boston, WNET/New York and KCET/Los Angeles ; produced and directed by
George T. Nierenberg. Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, 1989. UNCA VIDEO CASS ML3521 .T53 1989
Deals with rhythm and blues music performed by Black musicians during the 1940s and
1950s in small towns and rural areas of the American South, and their aspirations of
performing in the Apollo Theater.
Wild women don't have the blues [videorecording] /
Calliope Films. Inc. San Francisco : California Newsreel, 1989. UNCA VIDEO CASS ML3521
.W54 1989
A profile of Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ida Cox, and other
pioneering blues women from early in the century. The film compiles for the first time
dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues to commentary by "Queen of the
blues," Koko Taylor.
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