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39
The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Kock and Peder, editors, p. 258 (New York: Modern
Library, 1944).
40
The African Heritage of American English by Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass, p. xiii
(Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993).
41
42
From email exchange between the author and ethnomusicologist Steven Taylor.
43
Ibid.
44
Shadow Dancing in the USA by Michael Ventura (New York:
St. Martins Press, 1985).
45
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (MICRA, Inc, 1998).
46
Creative Loafing: Atlanta, April 10, 2002.
47
Major, p. 36.
48
49
50
Lexicon Of Black English by J.L. Dillard, p. 36, (New York: The Seabury Press, 1977).
51
Blues People by LeRoi Jones, p. 25 (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963). ).
52
Major, p. 48.
53
54
Looking Up at Down: the Emergence of Blues Culture by William Barlow,Ibid, pg. 18, (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1989).
55
Urban Blues, by Charles Keil, p. 27 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966).
56
African Rhythm and African Sensibility, by John Miller Chernoff, p. 75 (Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1979).
57
From General Oglethope to the Acountant, Mr. Harman Verselet, Cot 9 1737 in Chandler Company
Colonial Records, XXIII,XXII, p. 235.
58
Oliver, p. 81.
59
Chernoff, p. 55.
60
Barlow, p. 18.
61
Flash of the Spirit: African &and Afro-American Art &and Philosophy, by Robert Farris Thompson, p.
37 (New York: Random House, 1983).
62
The Roots of the Blues: An African Search, by Samuel Charters, p. 123 (New Hampshire: Da Capo Press,
1981).
63
Ibid., p. 119.
64
Lomax, p. 354.
65
Ibid.
66
Ibid.
67
Studies In African Music, by A.M. Jones (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), quoted in Chernoff,
p. 118.
68
Chernoff, p. 114.
69
Chernoff, p.118.
70
71
72
All from Holloway and Vass, p. 138.
73
74
Holloway and Vass, p. 94.
75
book for 1998 Oregon Festival of American Music.
76
Jones, p. 116.
77
All quotes fro
78 Jones, p. 128.
79 From John Hammond: On the Record
1998 Oregon Festival of American Music.
80 Biographical information on Cow-Cow Davenport from Red Hot Jazz.com.
81
Father of the Blues, by W. C. Handy, pg. 10 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1985; originally published in
1941).
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