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Jim Crow's Counterculture : The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 /

"In the Late Nineteenth Century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form--the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R.A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lawson, R. A., 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013.
Edición:Louisiana paperback edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Call and response : the blues of accommodation, the blues of resistance
  • To be Black is to be blue : the blues profession and negotiating the "Black place" during Jim Crow
  • Leavin' the Jim Crow town : the great migration and the blues's broadening horizon
  • Jim Crow's war for democracy : the blues people and World War I
  • Workin' on the project : the blues of the great flood and Great Depression
  • Uncle Sam called me : World War II and the blues counterculture of inclusion.