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307 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674035089
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01 October 2009
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W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary--some foundational myths of the black vernacular remain inescap...
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307 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674035089
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01 October 2009
Description
W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary--some foundational myths of the black vernacular remain inescap...
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Content Warnings