Blues & Gospel Records, 1890-1943 (Inbunden)
avRobert M. W. Dixon, Howard W. Rye, John Godrich
ISBN: 9780198162391 - UTGIVEN: 1997-10Since its first edition in 1964, Dixon and Godrich's Blues and Gospel Records has been dubbed "the bible" for collectors of pre-war African American music. It provides an exhaustive listing of all recordings made up to the end of 1943 in a distinctively African American style, excluding those custom[...]
The Rise and Fall of Languages (Pocket)
avRobert M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9780521626545 - UTGIVEN: 1998-01This book puts forward a new approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a[...]
Yonder Come the Blues (Pocket)
avPaul Oliver, Tony Russell, Robert M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9780521787772 - UTGIVEN: 2001-03Yonder Come the Blues combines three influential and much-quoted books: Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues. Updated with additional new essays, the book discusses the crucial early development of the blues as a music of Blacks in the United States, explaining some[...]
