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Selected Bibliography
Charters, Samuel. The Roots of the Blues. New York: Da Capo Press, 1991; originally
published Boston: Marion Boyars, Inc., 1981.
Chernoff, John Miller. African Rhythm and African Sensibility. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1979.
Dillard, J.L. Lexicon of Black English. New York: The Seabury Press, 1977.
Ferris, William. Blues from the Delta. New York: Da Capo Press, 1984; originally
published Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary
Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Gold, Robert S. A Jazz Lexicon. New York: Knopf, 1964.
Holloway, Joseph E. and Vass, Winifred K. The African Heritage of American English.
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka). Blues People. New York: Perennial edition, HarperCollins
Publishers Inc., 2002.
Keil, Charles. Urban Blues. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966.
Kellner, Bruce. Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1984.
Lomax, Alan. The Land Where the Blues Began. New York: The New Press, 1993.
Major, Clarence. Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of Afro-American Slang. New York: Penguin
Books, 1994.
Oliver, Paul. Savannah Syncopators: African Retentions in the Blues. New York: Stein
and Day, 1970.
Small, Christopher, Music of the Common Tongue. New York: Riverrun Press Inc., 1987.
Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit. New York: First Vintage Books, 1984.
Turner, Lorenzo Dow. Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1949.
Vass, Winifred Kellersberger. The Bantu Speaking Heritage of the United States. Los
Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, 1979.
Ventura, Michael. Shadow Dancing in the USA. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1986.
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