Blues People - LeRoi Jones - Books - HarperCollins Publishers Inc - 9780688184742 - January 20, 1999
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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] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music."

So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.


256 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 20, 1999
ISBN13 9780688184742
Publishers HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Pages 256
Dimensions 210 × 139 × 18 mm   ·   226 g
Language English  

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