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Blacks, Whites, and Blues
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: Tony Russell
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970 - Publisher:

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"An historical examination of the complex relationship between the Negro and White folk music traditions and the importance of the blues in both"--from page [4]
Blues Music in the Sixties
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Ulrich Adelt
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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In the 1960s, within the larger context of the civil rights movement and the burgeoning counterculture, the blues changed from black to white in its production
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: William G. Roy
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuabl
A Right to Sing the Blues
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Jeffrey Melnick
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-16 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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All too often an incident or accident, such as the eruption in Crown Heights with its legacy of bitterness and recrimination, thrusts Black-Jewish relations int
Blues People
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Leroi Jones
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-20 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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"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 c