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April 01 2020
The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2326-7. Cloth. Pp. 480. $85.00.
May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy. By Sharon Ammen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08215-3. Paperback. Pp. 296. $24.95.
Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870–1929. By Nicholas Gebhardt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-226-44869-5. Paperback. Pp. 208. $27.50.
American Music (2020) 38 (1): 102–109.
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Thomas L. Riis; The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. American Music 1 April 2020; 38 (1): 102–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.38.1.0102
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