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The Original Blues: the Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 420 pp. ISBN: 10 1496823265

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The Original Blues: the Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 420 pp. ISBN: 10 1496823265

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2022

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Leeds Arts University, UK
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Popular Music , Volume 40 , Issue 3-4 , December 2021 , pp. 509 - 511
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