Two steps from the blues: Creating discourse and constructing canons in blues criticism

This dissertation examines the development of blues criticism in its myriad forms from the 1920s to 1990s, its role in the emergence of a blues discourse and history, and the codification of a blues canon. I analyze blues discourse principally as the creation of critics, historians, and musicologist...

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Main Author: Dougan, John M.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2001
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623381
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3172&context=etd