Ramblin' on my mind: new perspectives on the blues

Bourdon, blue notes, and pentatonism in the blues: an Africanist perspective / Gerhard Kubik

"They cert'ly sound good to me": sheet music, Southern vaudeville, and the commercial ascendancy of the blues / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff

Abbe Niles, blues advocate / Elliott S. Hurwitt

The hands of blues guitarists / Andrew M. Cohen

From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: nicknames of blues singers / David Evans

Preachin' the blues: a textual linguistic analysis of Son House's "Dry spell blues" / Luigi Monge

Some ramblings on Robert Johnson's mind: critical analysis and aesthetic value in Delta blues / James Bennighof

"Guess these people wonder what I'm singing": quotation and reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis blues" / Katharine Cartwright

Beyond the mushroom cloud: a decade of disillusion in black blues and gospel song / Bob Groom

Houston creoles and zydeco: the emergence of an African American urban popular style / John Minton.