Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction Jill Terry Neil A. Wynn ix
1 The Historical and Social Background of Transatlantic Roots Music Revivals Jill Terry Neil A. Wynn 3
2 "Early Morning Blues": The Early Years of the Transatlantic Connection Paul Oliver 20
3 Dreaming Up the Blues: Transatlantic Blues Scholarship in the 1950s Christian O'Connell 37
4 American Balladry and the Anxiety of Ancestry Erich Nunn 57
5 Wooday Guthrie at the Crossroads Will Kaufman 77
6 "It's Not British Music, It's American Music": Bob Dylan and Britain John Hughes 94
7 Alan Lomax: An American Ballad Hunter in Great Britain Ronald D. Cohen 119
8 Putting the Blues in British Blues Rock Roberta Freund Schwartz 138
9 That White Man, Burdon: The Animals, Race, and the American South in the British Blues Boom Brian Ward 153
10 Born in Chicago: The Impact of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on the British Blues "Network," 1964-1970 Andrew Kellett 179
11 "When Somebody Take Your Number and use It": The 1960s, British Blues, and America's Racial Crossroads Robert H. Cataliotti 205
12 Groove Me: Dancing to the Discs of Northern Soul David Sanjek 227
13 Some Reflections on "Celtic" Music Duck Baker 246
Contributors 257
Index 263