Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary
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This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked "race records" recorded between 1923 and 1949. From "aggravatin' papa"...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0252033477
ISBN13:9780252033476
Release Date:October 2009
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Age Range:16 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 11 and higher
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