Jazz Classics Collection.

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Brown eyed handsome man : the life and hard times of Chuck Berry : an unauthorized biography / Bruce Pegg. by Pegg, Bruce

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William S. Burroughs / Phil Baker. by Baker, Phil, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…St. Louis Blues -- The hidden antagonist -- New York, New York -- Go South, young man -- A slip of the gun -- Tangier and Naked Lunch -- Paris: Cut-ups at the beat hotel -- Burroughs 1960-65: Undesirable alien -- Swinging London, 1966-73 -- Holding the bunker -- Kansas 1981-97: Adios Muchachos.…”
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Jazz in the time of the novel : the temporal politics of American race and culture / Bruce Barnhart. by Barnhart, Bruce, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Jazz and the novel in the cultural and imaginative landscape -- Music, race, and sublimation: ragtime and symphonic time in the autobiography of an ex-colored man -- "Carolina shout" and the rhythms of rent-party performance -- Forms of repetition and jazz sociality in The Great Gatsby -- Vibratory time in Smith and Armstrong's "St. Louis Blues" -- Rhythmicizing the novel: temporal taxonomies from Larsen to Hemingway, Stein to Hughe.…”
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W.C. Handy : the Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues. by Robertson, David

Table of Contents: “…Handy as Perennial Performer, 1927-1941; Chapter Eleven: "St. Louis Blues": The Final Performance, 1958; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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America's Music Legacy. MVD Entertainment Group.

Table of Contents: “…St. Louis Blues (4:15) -- "Paying the Cost to Be the Boss" (5:03) -- "How Blue Can You Get" (3:34) -- "All Over Again" (3:47) -- "Fine and Mellow" (4:51) -- "Stormy Monday" (3:18) -- "Ernie's Blues" (6:54) -- "Clean Head Blues" (4:16) -- "Born on a Friday" (4:04) -- "Everyday I Have the Blues" (4:44) -- "St. …”
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Jazz Shots. East Coast / MVD Entertainment Group.

Table of Contents: “…Alabama (5:54) -- "Afro Blue" (7:10) -- "My Ship" (9:03) -- "Blues After Dark" (7:18) -- "Lorraine" (3:49) -- "St. Louis Blues" (12:30) -- "The Champ" (5:33) -- "Walk on the Wild Side" (7:07) -- "Just Squeeze Me" (5:48) -- "After You're Gone" (4:36) -- "God Bless the Child" (5:55) -- "The Duke" (3:32) -- "Blues for Pablo" (5:49) -- "New Rhumba" (4:24) -- "Newport Stomp" (2:00) -- "Another Get Together" (4:13)…”
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Hear my sad story : the true tales that inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and other traditional American folk songs / Richard Polenberg. by Polenberg, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: The streets of Laredo -- St. Louis -- St. Louis blues -- Duncan and Brady -- Stagolee -- Frankie and Johnny -- Lying cold on the ground -- Omie wise -- The ballad of Frankie Silver -- Tom Dooley -- Poor Ellen Smith -- Pearl Bryan -- Delia's gone -- Bold highwaymen -- Cole Younger -- Jesse James -- John Hardy -- Railroad Bill -- Betty and Dupree -- Railroads -- John Henry (1870s) -- Engine 143 -- Casey Jones -- Wreck of the old 97 -- Workers -- Cotton mill blues (1930s) -- Chain gang blues (1930s) -- Only a miner (1930s) -- House of the rising sun (1930s) -- Disasters -- The Titanic -- The boll weevil (1920s) -- Martyrs -- Joe Hill -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Epilogue: Hear my sad story.…”
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Making Coco.

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Afro promo / curated by Jenni Olson and Karl Knapper.

Table of Contents: “…The Harlem Globetrotters (1952) -- St. Louis blues (1958) -- Edge of the city (1957) -- Defiant ones (1958) -- A raisin in the sun (1961) -- A patch of blue (1965) -- "They call me Mister Tibbs!" …”
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American detective : behind the scenes of famous criminal investigations / Thomas A. Reppetto. by Reppetto, Thomas A.

Table of Contents: “…The Brink's Job and the St. Louis Blues; 13. A Death in Dallas and the Disintegration of American Detective Bureaus; 14. …”
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Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues / edited by David Evans.

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: nicknames of blues singers / David Evans -- Preachin' the blues: a textual linguistic analysis of Son House's "Dry spell blues" / Luigi Monge -- Some ramblings on Robert Johnson's mind: critical analysis and aesthetic value in Delta blues / James Bennighof -- "Guess these people wonder what I'm singing": quotation and reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis blues" / Katharine Cartwright -- Beyond the mushroom cloud: a decade of disillusion in black blues and gospel song / Bob Groom -- Houston creoles and zydeco: the emergence of an African American urban popular style / John Minton.…”
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The Norton anthology of African American literature / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor, Nellie Y. McKay, general editor.

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Molding Giants, The Life and Work of Harry Weber / Patrick Branson.

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Wild women don't have the blues / Calliope Film Resources, Inc. ; director, Christine Dall ; producers, Carole van Falkenburg, Christine Dall.

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