For-the-record aesthetics and Robert Johnson's blues style as a product of recorded culture

Popular Music

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-81

  Rothenbuhler, Eric W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548240907     PISSN: 02611430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0261143007001134     Document Type: Review

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