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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawson, R. A., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013.
Edition:Louisiana paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Blues (Music)
African Americans > Social conditions.
Noirs americains > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Blues (Music) > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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