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Allen Lowe: Really the Blues?
A Blues History, 1893-1959

A lecture/discussion on the blues, the history of the blues, and the politics of the blues, with recorded illustrations that range from 1890s cylinders to Gospel quartets, field hollers to Doris Day, Delta blues singers to jump blues to avant garde jazz, Nazi propaganda broadcasts to Brigitte Bardot, cross dressers to Elvis Presley.