References and Further Reading in "The Blues: A Very Short Introduction"

1.
The religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States
The religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States 4.19 avg rating — 91 ratings
2.
American Negro Songs: 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs)
American Negro Songs: 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs) 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
3.
Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
Father of the Blues: An Autobiography 3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
4.
Honkers And Shouters: The Golden Years Of Rhythm & Blues
Honkers And Shouters: The Golden Years Of Rhythm & Blues 4.19 avg rating — 47 ratings
5.
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians 4.33 avg rating — 82 ratings
6.
The Godfather of Soul: An Autobiography
The Godfather of Soul: An Autobiography 3.87 avg rating — 202 ratings
7.
Urban Blues
Urban Blues 3.75 avg rating — 48 ratings
8.
Chronicles, Volume One
Chronicles, Volume One
by: Bob Dylan
3.98 avg rating — 60,441 ratings
9.
The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond
The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond 4.18 avg rating — 243 ratings
10.
His Eye is on the Sparrow
His Eye is on the Sparrow 4.10 avg rating — 200 ratings
11.
Jazz From The Beginning
Jazz From The Beginning 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
12.
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development 4.11 avg rating — 102 ratings
13.
Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters
Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
14.
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography Of Count Basie
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography Of Count Basie 3.75 avg rating — 91 ratings
15.
to Be or not to Bop: Memoirs- Dizzy Gillespie
to Be or not to Bop: Memoirs- Dizzy Gillespie 4.25 avg rating — 189 ratings
16.
Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman
Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman 4.06 avg rating — 89 ratings
17.
The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South
The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
18.
Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made the Music
Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made the Music 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
19.
Ernest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour
Ernest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
20.
Beale Black and Blue: Life and Music on Black America's Main Street
Beale Black and Blue: Life and Music on Black America's Main Street liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
21.
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry 4.24 avg rating — 458 ratings
22.
The Big Sea
The Big Sea 4.22 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
23.
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America 4.15 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
24.
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta 4.22 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
25.
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues 4.02 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
26.
Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records
Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
27.
The Music of Black Americans: A History
The Music of Black Americans: A History 4.28 avg rating — 93 ratings
28.
Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series)
Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
29.
Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues
Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues 4.07 avg rating — 199 ratings
30.
Bessie
Bessie 4.07 avg rating — 199 ratings
31.
Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast
Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
32.
Big Bill Blues
Big Bill Blues 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
33.
The Country Blues
The Country Blues 4.05 avg rating — 111 ratings
34.
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
35.
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards 4.19 avg rating — 123 ratings
36.
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
37.
The Land Where the Blues Began
The Land Where the Blues Began 4.31 avg rating — 850 ratings
38.
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" 4.13 avg rating — 141 ratings
39.
Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story 4.08 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
40.
Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music (The Michigan American Music Series) 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
41.
Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington 3.85 avg rating — 73 ratings
42.
Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story
Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
43.
The Death of Rhythm and Blues
The Death of Rhythm and Blues 4.09 avg rating — 296 ratings
44.
Can't Be Satisfied
Can't Be Satisfied 4.10 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
45.
Feel Like Going Home
Feel Like Going Home 4.18 avg rating — 498 ratings
46.
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
by: B.B. King
4.12 avg rating — 937 ratings
47.
The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine
The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
48.
Chicago Blues: The City & the Music
Chicago Blues: The City & the Music
by: Mike Rowe
3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings
49.
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf 4.22 avg rating — 576 ratings
50.
The Mayor of MacDougal Street
The Mayor of MacDougal Street 4.10 avg rating — 1,792 ratings
51.
Stomping The Blues
Stomping The Blues 4.07 avg rating — 213 ratings
52.
Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965
Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 3.84 avg rating — 136 ratings
53.
Hank Williams: The Biography
Hank Williams: The Biography 4.08 avg rating — 837 ratings
54.
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
55.
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century 4.18 avg rating — 50 ratings
56.
Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre
Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
57.
The Poetry of the Blues
The Poetry of the Blues 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
58.
Blues Fell this Morning: Meaning in the Blues (Canto original series)
Blues Fell this Morning: Meaning in the Blues (Canto original series) 3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings
59.
Screening The Blues: Aspects Of The Blues Tradition
Screening The Blues: Aspects Of The Blues Tradition 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Langston Hughes and the Blues
Langston Hughes and the Blues 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings