Jones Leroi - Blues People - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music." Langston Hughes" 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 (previously known as Le Roi Jones) 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.
Title: Blues People
Author(s): Jones Leroi
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780688184742
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 1/20/1999
Category: Blues