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Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary
Barrelhouse Words A Blues Dialect Dictionary
Author: Stephen Calt
This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780252033476
ISBN-10: 0252033477
Publication Date: 10/1/2009
Pages: 320
Edition: 1st Edition
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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