Jim Crow's counterculture
Subtitle: the blues and Black southerners, 1890-1945
By: R.A. Lawson.
Series: Making the modern South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; LSU Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807136805
Subjects: Blues (Music) -- Southern States -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Call and response : the blues of accommodation, the blues of resistance; title: To be Black is to be blue : the blues profession and negotiating the "Black place" during Jim Crow; title: Leavin' the Jim Crow town : the great migration and the blues's broadening horizon; title: Jim Crow's war for democracy : the blues people and World War I; title: Workin' on the project : the blues of the great flood and Great Depression; title: Uncle Sam called me : World War II and the blues counterculture of inclusion.