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blues

Description: A color term referring to hues between green and violet in the visible spectrum and their cultural or linguistic uses.
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OpenAlex ID: keywords/blues
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
1984 · Houston A. Baker, Jr. · University of Chicago Press eBooks · 1,062
Blues legacies and black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 945
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
1963 · Imamu Amiri Baraka · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 879
No Mercy Here
2016 · Sarah Haley · University of North Carolina Press eBooks · 637
The Norton anthology of African American literature
1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 626
The Sonic Color Line
2020 · Jennifer Lynn Stoever · New York University Press eBooks · 428
The Jazz cadence of American culture
1999 · Choice Reviews Online · 424
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta.
2000 · Bryan D. Palmer, Clyde Woods · Journal of American History · 399
Race music: black cultures from bebop to hip-hop
2004 · Choice Reviews Online · 378
The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening
2016 · Stoever, Jennifer Lynn · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 369
Poetry of mourning: the modern elegy from Hardy to Heaney
1994 · Choice Reviews Online · 362
Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues
2000 · Kyra D. Gaunt, Charles Keil, et al. · Yearbook for Traditional Music · 356
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
2002 · Eric Porter · 277
Blues People; Negro Music in White America
1965 · Charles Keil, John F. Szwed, et al. · Ethnomusicology · 272
Swinging the machine: modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars
2004 · Choice Reviews Online · 271
Disturbing the Peace
2009 · Bryan Wagner · Harvard University Press eBooks · 262
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music
1977 · Grant Harrison, Greil Marcus, et al. · The Black Perspective in Music · 255
Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form
2000 · Susan McClary · 250
Segregating sound: inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow
2010 · Choice Reviews Online · 242
The Oxford companion to African American literature
1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 241
Dissonant Identities: The Rock'n'Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
1996 · Victor Barac, Barry Shank · American Music · 241
What Are These Blue Metal-Poor Stars?
2000 · George W. Preston, Christopher Sneden · The Astronomical Journal · 234
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Sexy bodies: the strange carnalities of feminism
1996 · Choice Reviews Online · 222
The Music of Black Americans: A History
1974 · Charles Keil, Eileen Southern · Ethnomusicology · 207
Steppin' on the blues: the visible rhythms of African American dance
1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 203
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Citation count: 39,590
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