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  • Living country blues.

    • Text
    • Detroit, Folklore Associates, 1969.
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
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    Text *MFFB (U. S.-Negro) 70-34Offsite
  • Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers.

    • Text
    • New York, Stein and Day [1970]
    • 1970
    • 4 Items
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    Text *MFM-Amer. 71-19Offsite
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    Text JND 17-165Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    Text Sc 927.84-S (Stewart-Baxter, D. Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Blacks, whites, and blues.

    • Text
    • New York, Stein and Day [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text *MFBR (U.S.-Negro) 71-24Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Recording the blues [by] Robert M. W. Dixon and John Godrich.

    • Text
    • New York, Stein and Day [1970]
    • 1970
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *LE 71-47Offsite
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    Text Sc 789.9-D (Dixon, R. Recording the blues)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • B. B. King; the blues, the wellspring of today's American popular music, and its greatest performer, B. B. King, in an unusual and beautiful collection of articles, music, lyrics, photos, and quotes; written in standard music notation, guitar tablature, and chords, so that you can play it without reading music. [Music editor: Harvey Vinson. Book design: Jean Hammons.

    • Notated music
    • New York] Amsco Music Pub. Co. [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 71-27Offsite
  • Mississippi Black folklore; a research bibliography and discography [by] William R. Ferris, Jr.

    • Text
    • Hattiesburg, University and College Press of Mississippi [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 72-18Offsite
  • Guitar styles of Brownie McGhee; [a blues instruction guide and songbook for playing in the style of a great bluesman. Written in tablature and standard notation with comments on the songs and Brownie's philosophy of the blues] Edited by Happy Traum.

    • Notated music
    • New York, Oak Publication [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 72-1Offsite
  • The blues revival.

    • Text
    • London, Studio Vista, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 2 Items
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    Text JND 72-39Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 82-139Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Back woods blues, compiled by Simon A. Napier.

    • Text
    • [Bexhill-on-Sea, Eng., Blues Unlimited] 1968.
    • 1968
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 72-64Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 81-535Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The spirituals and the blues: an interpretation [by] James H. Cone.

    • Text
    • New York, Seabury Press [1972]
    • 1972
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 72-65Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 07-891Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Memphis blues and jug bands.

    • Text
    • London, Studio Vista, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNC 73-6Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 81-128Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Blues; an anthology. Complete words and music of 53 great songs. Edited by W. C. Handy. With an historical and critical text by Abbe Niles. With pictures by Miguel Covarrubias. Rev. by Jerry Silverman.

    • Notated music
    • New York, Macmillan Co. [c1972]
    • 1972
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 90-123Offsite
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    Notated music Sc 784.7-H (Handy, W. Blues; an anthology. 1972)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Nothing but the blues: an illustrated documentary; edited by Mike Leadbitter.

    • Text
    • London, Hanover Books Ltd., 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 784-L (Leadbitter, M. Nothing but the blues)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Living country blues.

    • Text
    • Detroit, Folklore Associates, 1969.
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 781.573-O (Oster, H. Living country blues)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Jazz & blues.

    • [London, Hanover Books]
    • 2 Items
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    JML 73-32 v. 1 (Apr. 1971 - Mar. 1972)Offsite
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    JML 73-32 v. 2-3 (Apr. 1972 - Dec. 1973)Offsite
  • Blues world.

    • Text
    • Knutsford, Cheshire, Eng.
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMK 73-24 no. 25-41 (Oct. 1969-Winter 1971)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMK 73-24 no. 42-49 (1972-73)Offsite
  • Blacks, whites and blues.

    • Text
    • New York, Stein and Day [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 780.9-R (Russell, T. Blacks, whites and blues)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Listen to the blues.

    • Text
    • New York, C. Scribner's Sons [c1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 73-24Offsite
  • Aspects of the blues tradition.

    • Text
    • [New York, Oak Publications, 1970, c1968]
    • 1970-1968
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 780.9-O (Oliver, P. Aspects of the blues tradition)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The bluesmen; the story and the music of the men who made the blues, by Samuel Charters.

    • Text
    • New York, Oak Publications [c1967-
    • 1967-present
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MFM-Amer. (Charters, S. B. Bluesmen)Offsite
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    Text Sc 784.7-C (Charters, S. Bluesmen) v. 1Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Warm hearted blues. Arranged by James E. Heath.

    • Notated music
    • [Teaneck, N. J.] Alnur Music [c1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNG 73-51Offsite
  • Blues research.

    • Text
    • Brooklyn, N. Y.
    • 19-19
    • 2 Items
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    Text *LA 74-89 Nos. 1-14, (1959-1965)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Text *LA 74-89 Nos. 15 (Feb. 1967?) - 16 (Jan. 1970?)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Charley Patton [by] John Fahey.

    • Text
    • London, Studio Vista, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 74-6Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 81-178Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Guitar styles of Brownie McGhee; [a blues instruction guide and songbook for playing in the style of a great bluesman. Written in tablature and standard notation with comments on the songs and Brownie's philosophy of the blues] Edited by Happy Traum.

    • Notated music
    • New York, Oak Publication [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc 787.6-M (McGhee, B. Guitar styles of Brownie McGhee)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Big star fallin' mama; five women in Black music. Illustrated with photos. [1st. ed.]

    • Text
    • New York, Viking Press [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 74-8Offsite
  • Ethnomusicology of downhome blues phonograph records 1926-1930.

    • Text
    • [Minneapolis, Minn.] 1971.
    • 1972-1971
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 96-13Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-616Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Bessie / Chris Albertson.

    • Text
    • New York : Stein and Day, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 2 Items

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 17-48Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    Text JNE 74-9Offsite
  • Discographical forum [microform].

    • Text
    • [London, etc.]
    • 1960-present
  • Crying for the Carolines.

    • Text
    • London, Studio Vista, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 74-12Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 82-141Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Listen to the blues.

    • Text
    • New York, C. Scribner's Sons [c1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784-C (Cook, B. Listen to the blues)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Die Theorie des Blues im modernen Jazz [von] Carl Gregor Herzog zu Mecklenburg [und] Waldemar Scheck. Mit 64 Notenbeispielen und Themenanalysen, 2 Tabellen, einer Bibliographie und Auswahldiskographie.

    • Text
    • Baden-Baden, V. Koerner, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 781.573-C (Carl Gregor. Theorie des Blues im modernen Jazz)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Soul music: [the sound, the stars, the story]

    • Text
    • New York, Lancer Books [c1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784.7-L (Larkin, R. Soul music)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Burton's book of the blues. [Photos. by Burton Wilson.]

    • Text
    • Austin, Tex., Speleo Press [c1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 74-31Offsite
  • Le blues moderne, 1945-1973.

    • Text
    • [Paris] A. Michel [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 74-35Offsite
  • Soul bag.

    • Text
    • [Paris, Comité de liaison des amateurs de rhythm & blues]
    • 15 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *LA 75-51 Nos. 186-190 (Mar. 2007-Mar. 2008)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Text *LA 75-51 Nos. 191-196 (June 2008-Dec. 2009)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Text *LA 75-51 Nos. 197-201 (Jan. 2010-Mar. 2011)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Saint Louis blues; a modern arrangement for two pianos, four hands, by Kathleen Dickey. Concert ed.

    • Notated music
    • New York, Handy Bros. Music Co. [c1943]
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNG 74-160Offsite
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  • Method on how to improvise soul music.

    • Text
    • [Teaneck, N. J.] Alnur Music [c1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNG 73-49Offsite
  • Three pieces for blues band and orchestra. [Op. 50]

    • Notated music
    • New York, Southern Music Pub. Co. [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNG 74-390Offsite
  • Right on : From blues to soul in Black America / Michael Haralambos.

    • Text
    • New York : Drake Publishers, [1975]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784-H (Haralambos, M. Right on)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mississippi Black folklore; a research bibliography and discography [by] William R. Ferris, Jr.

    • Text
    • Hattiesburg, University and College Press of Mississippi [1971]
    • 1971
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc 016.39-F (Ferris, W. Mississippi Black folklore)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc 016.39-F (Ferris, W. Mississippi Black folklore)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Collection of [the periodical literature of jazz] 1918-1972.

    • Text
    • New York, New York Public Library, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 81 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-912 r. 79 (Vintage jazz mart, 1956-Apr. 1961)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc Micro R-912 r. 80 (Vintage jazz mart, May 1961-1968)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc Micro R-912 r. 81 (Vintage jazz mart, Mar. 1969 - Zygote)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Robert Johnson, by Samuel Charters. With photos of Robert Johnson's Mississippi delta country by the author.

    • Text
    • New York, Oak Publications, c1973.
    • 1973
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNF 75-128Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
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    Text Sc F 00-10Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Encyclopedia of pop, rock and soul / by Irwin Stambler.

    • Text
    • New York : St. Martin's Press, [1975] c1974.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 780.3-S (Stambler, I. Encyclopedia of pop, rock and soul)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Chicago breakdown / Mike Rowe.

    • Text
    • New York : Drake Publishers, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784.7-R (Rowe, M. Chicago breakdown)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Big star fallin' mama; five women in Black music.

    • Text
    • New York, Viking Press [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 927.84-J (Jones, H. Big star fallin' mama)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The History of the blues. With a special introduction by Leonard Feather.

    • Text
    • New York, C. Hansen Music and Books [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784.7-H (History of the blues)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Paramount book of blues.

    • Notated music
    • Port Washington, Wis., The New York Recording Laboratories [1971?]
    • 1971-1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNE 75-15Offsite
  • Walking to New Orleans : the story of New Orleans rhythm & blues / [by] John Broven.

    • Text
    • Bexhill-on-Sea : Blues Unlimited, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784-B (Broven, J. Walking to New Orleans)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Blues Notes.

    • Text
    • [Linz]
    • 1969-1979
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMM 92-39 Nr. 2-7 (1969-70)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMM 92-39 Nr. 14-23 (1972-74) (Incomplete)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMM 92-39 1975-79Offsite
  • Listen to the blues / by Bruce Cook.

    • Text
    • London : Robson Books, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 75-33Offsite

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