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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gussow, Adam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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