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Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre. By Paul Oliver, Tony Russell, Robert M. W. Dixon, and others. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [xiii, 358 p. ISBN 0-521-78259-7. $65 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-78777-7. $23 (pbk.).] Illustrations, indexes.
Yonder Come the Blues reprints three books (Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues; and Recording the Blues) from the 1970-71 "blues series" edited by Paul Oliver and Tony Russell for Stein and Day/Studio Vista. The series as a whole gathered and summarized what was recovered and realized in the 1960s about African American blues music. Twelve books in all were published, each containing 112 pages full of text, photographs, and notes. Hardcover and paperback editions were issued, and the latter came to be known as Blues Paperbacks. Several now-prominent American researchers had their first books published here, including John Fahey, William Ferris, Paul Garon, Bruce Bastin, and David Evans. European writers were represented by Bob Groom, Karl Gert zur Heide, Bengt Olsson, and Derrick Stewart-Baxter, as well as by Paul Oliver, Tony Russell, Robert M. W. Dixon, and John Godrick. Several titles had companion long-playing records of illustrative music examples released through CBS (England) Records and Sa ydisc/Matchbox labels. The books were foundational texts for their subjects in the...
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