Blues, How Do You Do? Paul Oliver and the Transatlantic Story of the Blues
- Submitting institution
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University of Gloucestershire
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 170
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- ISBN
- 9780472052677
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Christian O’Connell’s book argues that British scholar Paul Oliver, and the transatlantic context in which he operated, are vital to understanding how blues music became understood in the post-war decades. It argues that the transatlantic networks underpinning this scholarship racially defined the blues as a beacon of cultural authenticity at a time of rapid cultural change, with consequences for the representation of African American culture. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of publications, oral history, photography, and original interviews with Oliver, the book challenges scholarship that has ignored the role of transatlantic networks in the history of the music.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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