Blues people
Negro music in white America.
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Word Count
61,000 words, Guess
Page Count
244 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18359074M
- ISBN-10068818474X
- OCLC Control Number190018
- OCLC Control Number52448432
- OCLC Control Number32006486
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- OCLC Control Number29748761
- OCLC Control Numberbluespeoplenegro00bara
- Library of Congress Control Number63017688
- Goodreads17595
- LibraryThing155247
Classifications
- DDC781.773
- LCCML3556 .B16
Description
"...the first book on jazz by a negro writer...new and highly provocative conclusions bolstered by bothe history and sociology...a must for all who could more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music, Negros in origin -Blues based- but now belonging to everybody." Langston Hugues "*Blues people* is not only a fresh, incisively instructive reinterpretation of Negro music in America, but it is also crucially relevant to Negro-white relationship today." Nat Hentoff "The first real attempts to place jazz and the blues within the context of American social history. Moreover, it represents one of the first efforts of a Negro writer to examine that relationship, and certainly one of the most exhaustive by any... *Blues People* is American musical history; it is also American cultural, economic and even emotional history. It traces not only the development of the Negros music which affected white America, but also the Negro value which affected white America." Library Journal For a cool analysis (in french) of the book i recommend you this links : PART1 < www.le-cercle-modernist.com/le-roi-jones-le-peuple-du-blues > PART2 < www.le-cercle-modernist.com/leroi-jones-le-peuple-du-blues-seconde-partie >
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Examines the history of the Negro in America through the music he created.
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