Subject: Blues (Music) › History and criticism

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• Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka (251 copies)
• Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the… by Robert Palmer (176 copies)
• Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey,… by Angela Davis (113 copies)
• The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People by Francis Davis (78 copies)
• Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey by Peter Guralnick (64 copies)
• The Story of the Blues by Paul Oliver (57 copies)
• The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues by Giles Oakley (56 copies)
• Nothing But the Blues : The Music and the Musicians by Lawrence Cohn (49 copies)
• Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart &… by Bill Wyman (49 copies)
• The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation by James H. Cone (47 copies)
• Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues by Paul Oliver (46 copies)
• Urban Blues (Phoenix Books) by Charles Keil (42 copies)
• Stomping the Blues by Albert Murray (42 copies)
• Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues by Gayle Dean Wardlow (29 copies)
• The New Grove Gospel Blues and Jazz: With Spirituals and… by Paul Oliver (25 copies)
• The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback) by Samuel B. Charters (25 copies)
• Blues for Dummies by Lonnie Brooks (24 copies)
• The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray by Tony Russell (23 copies)
• The roots of the blues : an African search by Samuel B. Charters (21 copies)
• Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s by Daphne Harrison (20 copies)
• Listen to the Blues by Bruce Cook (20 copies)
• The Hero And the Blues by Albert Murray (20 copies)
• Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues… by Dick Waterman (19 copies)
• Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues by Arnold Shaw (19 copies)
• Conversation with the Blues CD included by Paul Oliver (15 copies)
• Charley Patton by John Fahey (15 copies)
• The Jazz Cadence of American Culture by Robert O'Meally (15 copies)
• The Best of the Blues: The 101 Essential Blues Albums by Robert Santelli (12 copies)
• Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues by Steve Cheseborough (12 copies)
• Savannah Syncopators by Paul Oliver (12 copies)
• Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis… by Jeff Todd Titon (12 copies)
• Blues and the Poetic Spirit (Roots of Jazz) by Paul Garon (12 copies)
• Living country blues by Harry Oster (12 copies)
• The Listener's Guide to the Blues by Peter Guralnick (12 copies)
• Big road blues : tradition and creativity in the folk blues by David Evans (11 copies)
• Blacks, Whites and Blues by Tony Russell (11 copies)
• Blues Off the Record: Thirty Years of Blues Commentary (A… by Paul Oliver (11 copies)
• The Legacy of the Blues: A Glimpse Into the Art and the… by Samuel B. Charters (11 copies)
• Screening The Blues by Paul Oliver (10 copies)
• Recording the Blues by R. M. W. Dixon (9 copies)
• Blues: An Anthology : Complete Words and Music of 53 Great… by W.C. Handy (8 copies)
• The Voice of the Blues : Classic Interviews from Living… by Jim O'Neal (8 copies)
• The Blues Route by Hugh Merrill (8 copies)
• The bluesmen; the story and the music of the men who made… by Samuel B. Charters (8 copies)
• Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers by Derrick Stewart-Baxter (7 copies)
• Sounds So Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story by Barry Lee Pearson (7 copies)
• Soul Music: The Birth of a Sound in Black America (Da Capo… by Michael Haralambos (6 copies)
• The blues revival by Bob Groom (6 copies)
• Looking Up At Down Pb by William Barlow (6 copies)
• White Boy Singin' the Blues by Michael Bane (6 copies)

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