Blues People: Negro Music in White America

Blues People: Negro Music in White America

BookBlues People
Copyright HolderLeRoi Jones
Copyright Holder (Introduction/Prologue)Amiri Baraka
PublisherHarperCollins
ImprintPerennial
Cover/Jacket Design byCarin Goldberg
About/SubjectBlues, Jazz
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Reprinted2002
Copyright1999
Copyright1963
Pages / Fontxii, 244 pages
ISBN 100-688-18474-X (alk. paper)
ISBN 13978-0-688-18474-2
Barcode9780688184742
EAN 551399
PriceUSA $13.99
PriceCanada $16.99
ChaptersIntroduction vii 1 The negro as non-American: some backgrounds 1 2 The negro as property 11 3 African slaves / American slaves: their music 17 4 Afro-Christian music and religion 32 5 Slave and post-slave 50 6 Primitive blues and primitive jazz 60 7 Classic blues 81 8 The city 95 9 Enter the middle-class 122 10 Swing—from verb to noun 142 11 The blues continuum 166 12 The modern scene 175 Index 237
NotesReprint with a new introduction by the author Printed in U.S.A.
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