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How Britain got the blues : the transmission and reception of American blues style in the United Kingdom
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How Britain got the blues : the transmission and reception of American blues style in the United Kingdom / Roberta Freund Schwartz.
ISBN
0754687201
9780754687207
0754655806
9780754655800
Published
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 267 pages)
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Summary
This book explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. It is commonly known that many 'British invasion' rock bands were heavily influenced by Chicago and Delta blues styles. But how, exactly, did Britain get the blues? Roberta Schwartz analyses the transmission of blues records to England, from the first recordings to hit English shores to the end of the sixties.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Schwartz, Roberta Freund. How Britain got the blues. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Ashgate popular and folk music series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.
Contents
Jazz reception in Britain : misunderstandings and recordings in exile
The first time I met the blues : blues arrives in Britain
1953-1957 : the problem of the new
1957-1962 : the blues revival, part I
London : the new Chicago! : the R & B boom of 1963-1965
Blues at the crossroads : the British blues revival part III, 1965-1970.
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