Leroi Jones Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music That Developed from it William Morrow and Company 1972 Twelfth Printing
Title: Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music That Developed from it
Author: Leroi Jones
Format: Softcover
Publisher: William Morrow and Company 1972
Edition: Twelfth Printing
LCCN: 63-17688
Size: 5.25 x 8.25 * 244 pages
Synopsis: Blues People is a seminal study of Afro-American music by Amiri Baraka, who published it as LeRoi Jones in 1963. In Blues People Baraka explores the possibility that the history of black Americans can be traced through the evolution of their music.
...first book on jazz by a Negro writer with provocative conclusions bolstered by history and sociology.Langston Hughes ".
..a fresh, incisively instructive reinterpretation of Negro music in America...crucially relevant to Negro-white relationships today." Nat Hentoff
"The first real attempt to place jazz and the blues within the context of American social history...traces not only he development of the Negro music which affected white America, but also the Negro values which affected white America." Library Journal
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