Moo's Blues

Hum 1: A Cultural history of the blues

USEFUL LINKS: MUSICAL HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE BLUES GENRE

Timeline  http://blues.about.com/library/bltimeline.htm

 

A Brief History http://blues.about.com/od/blueshistory/a/briefhistory.htm

 

Southern Mosaic (on Lomax)  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html

 

History  http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/blueshistory.htm

 

Blues in History (articles on performers) http://www.cascadeblues.org/History/

 

African-American History and Culture http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm

 

GENERAL SITES ON THE BLUES

The Blues Foundation http://www.blues.org/

 

Wikipedia Article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues

 

The Blue Highway (tributes to blues greats) http://thebluehighway.com/tbh.html

 

The Blues (PBS Project)  http://www.pbs.org/theblues/

 

Delta Blues Museum  http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/

 

Blues Net http://bluesnet.hub.org/

 

Minstrelsy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/jackson/minstrel/minstrel.html

http://www.musicals101.com/minstrel.htm

http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/minstrl.html

 

Hollers

http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2002/Music/Pages/fieldhollers.htm

 

Ragtime

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime

http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200035811/default.html

http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200035813/default.html

 

Boogie Woogie /Barrelhouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie-woogie_%28music%29

http://www.colindavey.com/BoogieWoogie/articles/ofamart.htm

 

Local Blues Societies

http://www.sacblues.com/  (check out links on their web site)

http://www.sierrabluessociety.org/

http://www.shastablues.com/