In this essential and impassioned text,LeRoi Jones traces the intertwined development of blues and jazz music with the history of its creators in'White America'. As important and relevant as at its first publication in 1963,it shows how music and its people are inseparable - expressing and reflecting the other,surviving and adapting through oppression.
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Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781838858148Number of pages: 256Weight: 174 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mmEdition: Main - Canons
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A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular musicA panoramic sociocultural history of African-American music...the first major book of its kind by a black authorSo essential and,for many of today'smusic fans,so under-examined...Precise,probing and academicBlues People is not only a fresh,incisively instructive reinterpretation of negro music in America,but it is also crucially relevant to negro-white relationships today
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