Blues Books

New and Published Books

1. Experiencing Jazz

   Book and Online Access to Music, 2nd Edition

   By Richard Lawn

   Experiencing Jazz, Second Edition, is an integrated textbook with online resources for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through readings, illustrations, timelines, listening guides, and a streaming audio library, it immerses the reader in a journey through the history of jazz, while placing...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Rock History Reader

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Theo Cateforis

   The Rock History Reader is an eclectic compilation of readings that tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. The readings range from the vivid autobiographical accounts of such rock icons as Ronnie Spector...

   Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles

   By Larry Sandberg

   Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles, Larry Sandberg’s Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book...

   Published November 27th 2006 by Routledge
4. Broadcasting the Blues

   Black Blues in the Segregation Era

   By Paul Oliver

   Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural South through the heyday of sound recordings....

   Published October 11th 2005 by Routledge
5. Blues: The Basics

   By Dick Weissman

   Series: The Basics

   Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes: a definition of the blues and the major genres within it key artists such as Ma...

   Published October 25th 2004 by Routledge
6. Josh White

   Society Blues

   By Elijah Wald

   Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge
7. Blues with a Feeling

   The Little Walter Story

   By Tony Glover, Scott Dirks, Ward Gaines

   Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top 10 hits on the R&B charts, and he was also...

   Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge
8. The Voice of the Blues

   Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine

   By Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel

   The Voice of the Blues brings together interviews with many pioneering blues men including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and many others....

   Published December 6th 2001 by Routledge