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The African American almanac by Christopher A. Brooks, editor
ISBN: 9781414453293
Publication Date: 2011
Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis.
Publication Date: 1998
The bluesman : the musical heritage of black men and women in the Americas by Julio Finn
ISBN: 9780940793910
Publication Date: 1986
Traces the roots of the blues beyond American slavery. The first few chapters outline voodoo rituals and religious traditions in Africa and their importation to Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Brazil and the U.S.
Rythm oil : $ba journey through the music of the American South by Stanley Booth
ISBN: 9780679409441
Publication Date: 1991
Examines the roots of blues and soul music in a tour of the Old South, exploring the musical culture that produced Otis Redding, Elvis, Sam Phillips, B.B. King, and others

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