Whose Blues?
«“An insightful work that connects contemporary culture to an old-school genre.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Ably details the African American core of the blues and the shifting racial dynamics that have made the music so compelling to white Americans and blues fans in other cultures. Blues scholars will find the book illuminating.” —Library Journal»
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. Les mer
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In Whose Blues?, award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition's major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow's thought-provoking book kickstarts a long overdue conversation.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781469660356
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«“An insightful work that connects contemporary culture to an old-school genre.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Ably details the African American core of the blues and the shifting racial dynamics that have made the music so compelling to white Americans and blues fans in other cultures. Blues scholars will find the book illuminating.” —Library Journal»