延伸阅读

Cohn, Lawrence, ed. Nothing but the Blues. New York: Abbeville Press, 1993.

Jones, Leroi（Amiri Baraka）. Blues People: Negro Music in White America. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999.

Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta. New York: Viking Press, 1981.

Wald, Elijah. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

第一章

liver, Paul. Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971.

第二章

Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff. Ragged But Right: Black Travelling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. Jackson:University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Albertson, Chris. Bessie. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Bastin, Bruce. Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Broonzy, Big Bill, as told to Yannick Bruynoghe. Big Bill Blues. New York: Oak Archives, 2007.

Charters, Samuel. The Country Blues. New York: Da Capo, 1975.

Davis, Angela. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma”Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. New York: Vintage, 1998.

Edwards, David Honeyboy. The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1997.

Handy, William Christopher. Father of the Blues. New York: Da Capo, 1991.

Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Lomax, Alan. The Land Where the Blues Began. New York: Dell, 1993.

———— . Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “Inventor of Jazz.” Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

第三章

Charles, Ray, and David Ritz. Brother Ray: Ray Charles’Own Story. New York: Da Capo, 2004.

Chilton, John. Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Cohodas, Nadine. Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington. New York: Billboard Books, 2005.

Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm & Blues. New York:Pantheon, 1988.

Gordon, Robert. Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002.

Guralnick, Peter. Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock ’n’Roll. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1999.

Keil, Charles. Urban Blues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

King, B. B., with David Ritz. Blues All Around Me. New York: Avon Books, 1996.

O’Neal, Jim, and Amy Van Singel. The Voice of the Blues. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Rowe, Mike. Chicago Blues: The City & the Music. New York: Da Capo, 1981.

Segrest, James, and Mark Hoffman. Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’Wolf. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.

Shaw, Arnold. Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm & Blues. New York: Macmillan, 1978.

Van Ronk, Dave, and Elijah Wald. The Mayor of MacDougal Street. New York: Da Capo, 2006.

第四章

Murray, Albert. Stomping the Blues. New York: Da Capo, 1989.

Rosenthal, David. Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955–1965. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

第五章

Escott, Colin, George Merritt, and William MacEwen. Hank Williams: The Biography. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2004.

Malone, Bill C. Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers:Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

Mazor, Barry. Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America’s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century. New York:Oxford University Press, 2009.

Russell, Tony. Blacks, Whites, and Blues. Currently available in Paul Oliver et al., Yonder Come the Blues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

第六章

Charters, Samuel. The Poetry of the Blues. New York: Oak Publications, 1963.

Oliver, Paul. Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

———— . Screening the Blues: Aspects of the Blues Tradition. New York: Da Capo, 1989.

Tracy, Steven C. Langston Hughes and the Blues. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.