Whose blues? : facing up to race and the future of the music /

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"Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of 'Crazy Blues' set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for 'race records.' Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A centur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gussow, Adam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Blues (Music) > History and criticism.
Music and race > United States.
African Americans > United States > Music > History and criticism.
Musique et race > États-Unis.
MUSIC / Ethnomusicology
African Americans > Music
Blues (Music)
Music and race
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Starting the conversation
  • Blues conditions
  • Blues feelings and "real bluesmen"
  • Blues expressiveness and the blues ethos
  • W.C. Handy and the "birth" of the blues
  • Langston Hughes and the scandal of early blues poetry
  • Zora Neale Hurston in the Florida jooks
  • Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the Southern blues violences
  • The blues revival and the Black arts movement
  • Giving it all away : blues harmonica education in the digital age
  • Turnaround.

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