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The Blues: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker CHAOS Leonard Smith and Richard Rathbone CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long THE AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead PRESIDENCY Charles O. Jones CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy ANARCHISM Colin Ward CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw Helen Morales ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas CLASSICS Mary Beard ANCIENT WARFARE and John Henderson Harry Sidebottom CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller CONTEMPORARY ART THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS Julian Stallabrass Paul Foster CONTINENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman ART HISTORY Dana Arnold CRYPTOGRAPHY ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland Fred Piper and Sean Murphy ATHEISM Julian Baggini DADA AND SURREALISM AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick David Hopkins AUTISM Uta Frith DARWIN Jonathan Howard BARTHES Jonathan Culler THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BESTSELLERS John Sutherland Timothy Lim THE BIBLE John Riches DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Eric H. Cline DESCARTES Tom Sorell BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee DESERTS Nick Middleton THE BLUES Elijah Wald DESIGN John Heskett THE BOOK OF MORMON DINOSAURS David Norman Terryl Givens DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea DOCUMENTARY FILM BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright Patricia Aufderheide BUDDHA Michael Carrithers DREAMING J. Allan Hobson BUDDHISM Damien Keown DRUGS Leslie Iversen BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe CAPITALISM James Fulcher THE EARTH Martin Redfern CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger BRITAIN Paul Langford THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway EMOTION Dylan Evans HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson EMPIRE Stephen Howe HEGEL Peter Singer ENGELS Terrell Carver HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood EPIDEMIOLOGY Roldolfo Saracci HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson ETHICS Simon Blackburn HINDUISM Kim Knott THE EUROPEAN UNION HISTORY John H. Arnold John Pinder and Simon Usherwood THE HISTORY OF EVOLUTION ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin Brian and Deborah Charlesworth THE HISTORY OF LIFE EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn Michael Benton FASCISM Kevin Passmore THE HISTORY OF FASHION Rebecca Arnold MEDICINE William Bynum FEMINISM Margaret Walters THE HISTORY OF TIME FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak Leofranc Holford-Strevens THE FIRST WORLD WAR HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside Michael Howard HOBBES Richard Tuck FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY HUMAN EVOLUTION David Canter Bernard Wood FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham FOSSILS Keith Thomson HUME A. J. Ayer FOUCAULT Gary Gutting IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton INDIAN PHILOSOPHY FREE WILL Thomas Pink Sue Hamilton FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons INFORMATION Luciano Floridi THE FRENCH REVOLUTION INNOVATION William Doyle Mark Dodgson and David Gann FREUD Anthony Storr INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven INTERNATIONAL GALAXIES John Gribbin MIGRATION Khalid Koser GALILEO Stillman Drake INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS GAME THEORY Ken Binmore Paul Wilkinson GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh ISLAM Malise Ruthven GEOGRAPHY ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein John Matthews and David Herbert JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds JUDAISM Norman Solomon GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle JUNG Anthony Stevens GERMAN PHILOSOPHY KABBALAH Joseph Dan Andrew Bowie KAFKA Ritchie Robertson GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire KANT Roger Scruton KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner THE NEW TESTAMENT AS THE KORAN Michael Cook LITERATURE Kyle Keefer LANDSCAPES AND NEWTON Robert Iliffe GEOMORPHOLOGY NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN LAW Raymond Wacks Christopher Harvie THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS and H. C. G. Matthew Peter Atkins THE NORMAN CONQUEST LEADERSHIP Keith Grint George Garnett LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler NORTHERN IRELAND LOCKE John Dunn Marc Mulholland LOGIC Graham Priest NOTHING Frank Close MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner NUCLEAR WEAPONS THE MARQUIS DE SADE Joseph M. Siracusa John Phillips THE OLD TESTAMENT MARX Peter Singer Michael D. Coogan MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close THE MEANING OF LIFE PAUL E. P. Sanders Terry Eagleton PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope PHILOSOPHY OF LAW MEDIEVAL BRITAIN Raymond Wacks John Gillingham and PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Ralph A. Griffiths Samir Okasha MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards MODERN ART David Cottington PLATO Julia Annas MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta David Miller MODERN JAPAN POLITICS Kenneth Minogue Christopher Goto-Jones POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young MODERNISM Christopher Butler POSTMODERNISM MOLECULES Philip Ball Christopher Butler MORMONISM POSTSTRUCTURALISM Richard Lyman Bushman Catherine Belsey MUSIC Nicholas Cook PREHISTORY Chris Gosden MYTH Robert A. Segal PRESOCRATIC NATIONALISM Steven Grosby PHILOSOPHY Catherine Osborne NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer PRIVACY Raymond Wacks NEOLIBERALISM PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns THE NEW TESTAMENT PSYCHOLOGY Luke Timothy Johnson Gillian Butler and Freda McManus PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer SOCIALISM Michael Newman THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce QUANTUM THEORY SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor John Polkinghorne THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell RACISM Ali Rattansi THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy Helen Graham THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi RELATIVITY Russell Stannard SPINOZA Roger Scruton RELIGION IN AMERICA Timothy Beal STATISTICS David J. Hand THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton STUART BRITAIN John Morrill RENAISSANCE ART SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Geraldine A. Johnson Stephen Blundell ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway TERRORISM Charles Townshend THE ROMAN EMPIRE THEOLOGY David F. Ford Christopher Kelly THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber TOCQUEVILLE ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler Harvey C. Mansfield RUSSELL A. C. Grayling TRAGEDY Adrian Poole RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly THE TUDORS John Guy THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TWENTIETH-CENTURY S. A. Smith BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan SCHIZOPHRENIA THE UNITED NATIONS Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone Jussi M. Hanhimäki SCHOPENHAUER THE U.S. CONGRESS Christopher Janaway Donald A. Ritchie SCIENCE AND RELIGION UTOPIANISM Lyman Sargent Thomas Dixon THE VIKINGS Julian Richards SCOTLAND Rab Houston WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt THE WORLD TRADE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar ANTHROPOLOGY WRITING AND SCRIPT John Monaghan and Peter Just Andrew Robinson Available soon: English Literature Jonathan Bate Martin Luther Scott H. Hendrix Keynes Robert Skidelsky Michael Faraday Agnosticism Robin Le Poidevin Frank A. J. L. James For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ This page intentionally left blank Elijah Wald The Blues A Very Short Introduction 1 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2010 by Elijah Wald Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wald, Elijah. The blues : a very short introduction / Elijah Wald. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-539893-9 (pbk.) 1. Blues (Music)—History and criticism. I. Title. ML3521.W33 2010 781.643—dc22 2010010475 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants. on acid-free paper Contents List of illustrations xi Introduction: what is blues? 1 Part I A short history of blues 1 Roots of the blues 11 2 Prewar blues 21 3 Modern blues 47 Part II Blues in American culture 4 Blues and jazz 81 5 Blues and country music 95 6 The language and poetry of the blues 111 References 125 Further reading 128 Index 131
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