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by Peter C. Muir

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Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had already appeared in sheet music and on recordings. In this examination of early popular blues, Peter C. Muir traces the genre's early history and the highly creative interplay between folk and popular forms, focusing especially on the roles W. C. Handy played in both blues music and the music business.

Long Lost Blues exposes for the first time the full scope and importance of early popular blues to mainstream American culture in the early twentieth century. Closely analyzing sheet music and other print sources that have previously gone unexamined, Muir revises our understanding of the evolution and sociology of blues at its inception.

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  • Title Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920
  • Author Peter C. Muir
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date 2010-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780252034879 / 0252034872
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7 x 0.9 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Blues (Music) - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009015046
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.643

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/22/2010, Page 18

About the author

An internationally recognized pianist, composer, scholar, and conductor, Peter C. Muir is the cofounder and codirector of the Institute for Music and Health in Verbank, New York.
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