Encyclopedia of the blues

Available (2)

Location	Collection	Call #
CLP - Main Library	Second Floor - Music - Open Stacks	q ML102.B6 E53 2006 vol.1
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Second Floor - Music - Open Stacks
Call Number	q ML102.B6 E53 2006 vol.1
CLP - Main Library	Second Floor - Music - Open Stacks	q ML102.B6 E53 2006 vol.2
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Second Floor - Music - Open Stacks
Call Number	q ML102.B6 E53 2006 vol.2

 

Noncirculating (2)

Location	Collection	Call #
CLP - Main Library	Second Floor Music - Room Reference	rq ML102.B6 E53 2006 vol.1
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Second Floor Music - Room Reference
Call Number	rq ML102.B6 E53 2006 vol.1
CLP - Main Library	Second Floor Music - Room Reference	rq ML102.B6 E53 2006 vol.2
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Second Floor Music - Room Reference
Call Number	rq ML102.B6 E53 2006 vol.2

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Summary

Contents

v. 1. A-J, index
v. 2. K-Z, index.

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "This encyclopedia is devoted to covering the blues as a musical form while also exploring its historical and cultural foundations. The 2,100 entries, written by 140 scholars and musicians, are arranged alphabetically and range in length from brief definitions (a couple of sentences) to long, analytical articles (5,000 words). Access is aided by both an alphabetical and a thematic list of entries as well as a comprehensive subject, people, and song-title index. There is also some cross-referencing between related entries. Although the text is occasionally supplemented with black-and-white photographs, the aesthetic appeal would have been greater with more pictures, particularly given the large number of biographical entries. The majority of entries are indeed biographical, covering performers, historians, songwriters, and label owners. Coverage is also heavily weighted toward record labels ( Irma,0 Matchbox0 ). Other, less-represented areas of coverage include musical styles, forms, techniques, and instruments ( Field hollers, Funk, Scales0 ); specific regions ( Africa,0 Chicago0 ); the historiography of the blues ( Libraries,0 Periodicals0 ); cultural aspects of the blues ( Racial issues and the blues, Women and the blues0 ); business aspects ( Chitlin0 Circuit,0 Marketing0 ); and individual songs ( "Mustang Sally,0 " " Stormy Monday0 "). Each entry ends with a bibliography of further reading, and each biographical entry also has a discography. In the case of major musicians, a list of selected recordings and reissues is also included. References rely heavily on a short list of "frequently cited sources" that wisely includes the All Music Guide to the Blues0 (Backbeat, 2003) and Robert Santelli's The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia 0 (Penguin, 1993). Libraries with access to the above-referenced blues titles or the Grove Music Online0 database already offer basic coverage for mainstream questions about the blues, but this encyclopedia clearly fills a gap by offering multifaceted coverage in one place. The blues, when treated as an encyclopedic subject, often gets lumped together with jazz, folk, or gospel; it is rare to see it stand on its own. This encyclopedia is more comprehensive than the last attempt at a solely blues encyclopedia, the same-titled Encyclopedia of the Blues0 (University of Arkansas, 1997). Recommended for all music libraries and all libraries supporting blues scholars. --Susan Gardner Copyright 2006 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

Additional Information

Subjects	Blues (Music) -- Encyclopedias. Blues musicians -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Publisher	New York :Routledge,2006
Contributors	Komara, Edward M., 1966-
Language	English
Description	2 volumes (lxiii, 1108 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	0415926998 (set : alk. paper) 0415927005 (v. 1 : alk. paper) 0415927013 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
Other	Classic View