An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-American blues music

This book presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk and blues music. The essays had their origins in an i

This book explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. It is commonly known that many 'British invasion' r

Chronology of British blues performances and news.