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Samuel Charters, the Glossary

Samuel Barclay Charters IV (August 1, 1929 – March 18, 2015) was an American music historian, writer, record producer, musician, and poet.^[1]

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Blues historians
Historians of jazz

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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African Journey: A Search for the Roots of the Blues

African Journey: A Search for the Roots is a blues album by an American historian Samuel Charters and an attempt to trace the roots and influences of American blues from the 1920s and 1930s back to the tribal music of West Africa.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Andros, Bahamas

Andros Island is an archipelago within The Bahamas, the largest of the Bahamian Islands.

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Ann Charters

Ann Charters (born November 10, 1936) is Professor Emerita of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

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Augustana College (Illinois)

Augustana College is a private Lutheran college in Rock Island, Illinois.

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Barrelhouse Buck McFarland

Thomas F. McFarland (September 16, 1903 – April 8, 1962), known professionally as Barrelhouse Buck McFarland was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, singer and composer.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age.

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Bill Haley & His Comets

Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band formed in 1947 and continuing until Haley's death in 1981.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Blues Hall of Fame

The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Country Joe and the Fish

Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965.

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Folkways Records

Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.

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George Lewis (clarinetist)

George Lewis (born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon; July 13, 1900 – December 31, 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his highest profile in the later decades of his life.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Joseph Spence (musician)

Joseph Spence (August 3, 1910 – March 18, 1984) was a Bahamian guitarist and singer.

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Lightnin' Hopkins

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas.

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Marion Boyars

Marion Ursula Boyars, née Asmus (26 October 1927 – 1 February 1999), was a British book publisher who in 1975 founded her own imprint, Marion Boyars Publishers.

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Music of Africa

Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions.

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Music of the Bahamas

The music of the Bahamas is associated primarily with Junkanoo, a celebration which occurs on Boxing Day and again on New Year's Day.

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Myelodysplastic syndrome

A myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is one of a group of cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature, and as a result, do not develop into healthy blood cells.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City which issued recordings in the mainstream, bop, and cool jazz idioms.

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Rock Island, Illinois

Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Rolf Aggestam

Rolf Aggestam (21 December 1941 – 27 December 2020) was a Swedish poet, writer and translator.

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Sacramento City College

Sacramento City College (SCC) is a public community college in Sacramento, California.

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Sacramento, California

() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Sonet Records

Sonet Records was a jazz, pop and rock record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Storrs, Connecticut

Storrs is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Mansfield in eastern Tolland County, Connecticut, United States.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Country Blues

The Country Blues is a seminal album released on Folkways Records in 1959, catalogue RF 1.

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The Country Blues (book)

The Country Blues is a seminal book by Samuel Charters, published in 1959 and generally acknowledged as the first scholarly book-length study of country blues music.

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The Holy Modal Rounders

The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who formed in 1963 on the Lower East Side of New York City.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Wired for Books

Wired for Books was an online educational project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Charters

Also known as Charters, Samuel, Sam Charters, Samuel B. Charters, Samuel Barclay Charters, Samuel Barclay Charters IV.

Samuel Charters, the Glossary

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See also

Blues historians

Historians of jazz

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