How Blue Can You Get? “It’s Tight Like That” and the Hokum Blues

Research Article| October 01 2018 How Blue Can You Get? “It’s Tight Like That” and the Hokum Blues Roberta Freund Schwartz Roberta Freund Schwartz Roberta Freund Schwartz is an associate professor of historical musicology at the University of Kansas. Her areas of specialization include the music of the Spanish Renaissance and African American popular music. Her work on music patronage by the Spanish nobility, British blues rock, and blues has appeared in a number of compilations and festschrifts, and her monograph, How Britain Got the Blues (Ashgate, 2007), won the Association of Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Blues and R&B. She is currently working on a book about the city blues style and the recording industry before 1940. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2018) 36 (3): 367–393. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.3.0367 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Roberta Freund Schwartz; How Blue Can You Get? “It’s Tight Like That” and the Hokum Blues. American Music 1 January 2018; 36 (3): 367–393. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.3.0367 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF.