Write Me a Few of Your Lines
Subtitle: A Blues Reader
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9781558492066
Subjects: Blues; Jazz; 20th century; Music/Songbooks; Genres & Styles - Soul & R&B; Music; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Genres & Styles - Blues; Blues (Music); History and criticism
First sentence: WHEN African American Countee Cullen queried "What is Africa to me" in his famous poem "Heritage" and then produced a litany of varied, frequently conflicting images and ideas that flitted and flared across his haunted and confused consciousness, he was exposing a central perplexity in the construction of African American self-perception, comprehension, and enlightenment.