Blues people : Negro music in white America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Perennial, 2002.
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Item Description:"First Quill edition published 1999"--Title page verso.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Negro as non-American : some backgrounds
  • The Negro as property
  • African slaves, American slaves : their music
  • Afro-Christian music and religion
  • Slave and post-slave
  • Primitive blues and primitive jazz
  • Classic blues
  • The city
  • Enter the middle class
  • Swing, from verb to noun
  • The blues continuum
  • The modern scene.