The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues ..illustrated with b & w Photos ...Sonny Terry, Bessie Smith, Big Joe Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, "Jelly Roll" Morton, 'Blind Boy" Fuller, Howling Wolf, Eddie "Son" House, Ida Cox by Oakley, Giles - 1976

London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1976. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover, 287 pages, tight clean and square, former owners name on ffep, creasing to covers, minor edge wear. Contents include: Part One: Slavery, Nigger Minstrels and coon songs, From Emancipation to Segregation, From Minstrels to ragtime. Early New Orleans Jazz and Blues, Work and Song, W.C. Handy / Part 2: Charley Patton, Henry Thomas 'Ragtime Texas' , Lead Belly, The barrelhouse circuit and the 'Piney Woods', Migration / Part 3: Crazy Blues, Showbiz Blues 1: The tents shows , Ma Rainey, Showbiz Blues 2: The theatres, Bessie Smith, Women's Blues / Part 4: The men start recording, Field recordings, Atlanta, Memphis / Part 5: The Depression, City Blues, Blues in St. Louis, Blues in Chicago, The rural South, Blues in the South / Part 6: Post-War Blues, The end of an era, Say it loud / Bibliography / Discography / General index/ Index of songs. Check out the scans. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.