Introduction: yonder come the Blues Paul Oliver
Book One. Savannah Syncopators: African retentions in the Blues: 1. Afternoon - Nangodi
2. Africa and jazz historian
3. Music in West Africa
4. Savannah song
5. The source of the slaves
6. Africa and the Blues
7. Afterword Paul Oliver
Book Two. Blacks, Whites and Blues: Foreword
8. Minstrelsy
9. Old familiar tunes
10. Letting out the Blues
11. The Idea of the White People
12. Out West
13. Out East
14. Afterword Tony Russell
Book Three. Recording The Blues: 15. The birth of a new industry
16. The new market 1920-2
17. The classic blues
18. Into the field 1927-30
19. Hard times
20. Urban blues 1934-40
21. End of an era 1941-5 Robert M. W. Dixon and John Godrich
22. Afterword Howard Rye.
