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| #1803951 in eBooks | 2013-10-18 | 2013-10-18 | File type: PDF||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Not what I'd thought, in the very best way|By J. Birkinshaw|At first I was very put off by the term "formula," which negatively suggested a paint-by-numbers approach employed by a disinterested hack. After reading however, I came to understand it as a compositional tool found in oral traditions, especially epic/bardic poetry. I have to say, this will probably be part of a short|About the Author|Michael Taftis head of the Archive Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. He is the author of Talkin' to Myself:Blues Lyrics 1921-1940 (Routledge 2005).
This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form.
Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic comp...
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