The production of popular music as a confidence game: The case of the Chicago blues

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-158

  Grazian, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethnography; Music; Race; Symbolic interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943081996     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:QUAS.0000020690.48033.00     Document Type: Article

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