# Screening The Blues

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- Authors: [Paul Oliver](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-oliver)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1989-03-22

## Description

The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black traditions - musical and religious - and tracing the origin of the blues through the dense, many-coloured warp and weft of influences and inspiration. He describes " the dozens," Christmas rituals, and the coded (as well as blatant) sexual imagery that has always been a vital element of every popular song tradition. With extensive source notes, photographs, a discography, and two indexes of song titles and singers, this book serves as a sound, serious, and entertaining guide to the blues heritage that has vitalized so much of the world's musical culture.

## Editions

### Screening The Blues

- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-03-0680-344-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1989-03-22
- Language: en_GB