Resources
- What is the Blues?
- About Vaudeville
- A Preacher, A Killer: the incredible story of Son House, king of the Delta Blues
- Huddie (LeadBelly) Ledbetter (1888-1949)
References
Blesh, Rudi. 1949. Shining Trumpets: A History of Jazz. London: Cassell.
Dougan, John. 1999. "The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, and the Prisonaires." American Music 17, no. 4: 447-68.
Filene, Benjamin. 1991. "'Our Singing Country': John and Alan Lomax, Leadbelly, and the Construction of an American Past." American Quarterly 43, no. 4: 602-24.
Gates, Jr., Henry Louis. 2013. "The Truth behind '40 Acres and a Mule'." The Root, January 7, 2013. Accessed September 18, 2021. https://www.theroot.com/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule-1790894780.
Hoffman, Franz, ed. 1983. Jazz Advertised 1910-1967, Vol. 7: Out of the New York Times. Berlin: Franz Hoffmann.
Oliver, Paul. 1990. Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Southern, Eileen. 1997. The Music of Black Americans. 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Stewart-Baxter, Derrick. 1970. Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. London: Studio Vista.