History beings yesterday

Authors

African-American music, music genres

An overview of aspects of African-American musical genres that have been overlooked or disregarded by most historians of the subject.

Paul Oliver, Oxford Brookes University

Paul Oliver is a Professor of Oxford Brookes University, Fellow of the University of Exeter and of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His ground-breaking work on the blues has been highly influential to an entire generation of scholars within popular music studies. His many books includ Blues Fell this Morning: The Meaning of the Blues(1960) and Conversation with the Blues. International Centre for Vernacular Architecture Studies School of the Built Environment Oxford Brookes University Gypsy Lane, Headington Oxford OX3 0BP UK

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