Blues people / LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka).
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper perennial, 1999Description: xii, 244 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780688184742Other title: Blues people : negro music in white America [Cover title]Subject(s): Afro-Americans -- Music | Blues (Music) -- History and criticism | Jazz -- History and criticism | United States -- Civilization -- Afro-American influencesDDC classification: 781.64308996073 | 781.643073 Summary: This is a very readable account of the sociological conditions that led to the blues emerging. Then the history and meaning of the blues for American blacks is discussed.
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Originally published: 1963 by Morrow.
This edition contains a new introduction by the author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is a very readable account of the sociological conditions that led to the blues emerging. Then the history and meaning of the blues for American blacks is discussed.
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