Whose blues? : facing up to race and the future of the music /
Gussow, Adam,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Starting the conversation -- Blues conditions -- Blues feelings and "real blues men" -- Blues expressiveness and the blues ethos -- W.C. Handy and the "birth" of the blues -- Langston Hughes and the scandal of early blues poetry -- Zora Neale Hurston in the Florida jooks -- Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the Southern blues violences -- The blues revival and the black arts movement -- Giving it all away: blues harmonica education in the digital age -- Turnaround.
Blues (Music)
Music and race
African Americans
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Music and race.