Frank Stokes
Sign in to saveAmerican blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel (1888–1955)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1858
- Died
- 1955
- Works
- 3
Top works
- [The Northern regions pamphlets]
- Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute Museum of Arctic and Antarctic Pictures
- Frank Wilbert Stokes correspondence
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1888
- Active to
- 1955
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 33,712
- Total plays
- 165,408
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Frank Stokes (January 1, 1888 – September 12, 1955) was a blues musician who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style. He was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, in South Memphis' largest vicinity Whitehaven, located two miles north of the Mississippi line. He was raised by his stepfather in Tutwiler, Mississippi, after the death of his parents. Stokes learned to play guitar as a youth in Tutwiler, and <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Stokes">
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,698x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,049x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,808x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frank
- Family name
- Stokes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- Place of death
- Memphis
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Genre
- Delta blues
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Paramount
- Voice type
- tenor
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1888-01-01
- date of death
- 1955-09-12
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1900-00-00
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