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Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History. Edited by Robert Springer. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2008

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Copyright © The Society for American Music 2008

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1 Oliver, Paul, Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)Google Scholar. The essays collected by Springer were initially presented at the conference “The Lyrics of African American Popular Music,” which he organized at the University of Metz, France, in 2002. As Springer notes in the preface, an earlier collection, The Lyrics in African American Popular Music (Bern: Peter Lang, 2001), resulted from a conference by the same name in 2000.

2 Harrison, Daphne Duval, Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988)Google Scholar.

3 Calt, Stephen and Wardlow, Gayle, King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton (Newton, N.J.: Rock Chapel Press, 1988), 47Google Scholar.

4 Oliver, Paul, “Blues Research: Problems and Possibilities,” Journal of Musicology 2/4 (Autumn 1983): 377CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Oliver, Paul, Blues Fell This Morning: The Meaning of the Blues (London: Cassell, [1960] 1963)Google Scholar.