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Blues People (LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka), The Land Where the Blues Began (Alan Lomax), The Roots of the Blues (Sam Charters), Savannah Syncopators (Paul Oliver), Flash of the Spirit (Robert Farris Thompson), African Rhythm and African Sensibility (John Miller Chernoff), Blues From the Delta (William Ferris), The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), The African Heritage of American English (Joseph Holloway and Winifred Vass), Urban Blues (Charles Keil), Juba to Jivae (Clarence Major), Shadow Dancing in the USA (Michael Ventura), Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Lorenzo Dow Turner), The Bantu Speaking Heritage of the United States (Winifred Vass), Lexicon of Black English (J.L. Dillard), Readings in African-American Language (Nathanial Norment, ed.)
Son Seals, Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Koko Taylor, Etta James, Howlin Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, Albert Collins, Pinetop Perkins, Little Milton Campbell, Dr. John, Robert Johnson, Memphis Minnie, Charlie Patton, Skip James and all the Africans who were brought to the "New World" in chains and who made an aesthetic conquest of it through sheer force of spirit.