SOURCE: “‘They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me’: Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues,” in American Music, Vol. 14, No. 4, Winter, 1996, pp. 402-54.
In the following essay, Abbott and Seroff trace the origins of blues music in southern vaudeville and consider the growth of popular blues.
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