Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones

Blues People: Negro Music in White America

Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones

256 pages first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] t...

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