On Highway 61
Subtitle: music, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom
By: Dennis McNally
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781619024496
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Popular music; Music; African American influences; African Americans; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: On Highway sixty-one; Music, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom
Description: Searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-449) and index.
Table of contents: title: Race and the freedom principle in nineteenth-century America. America and Henry Thoreau; title: A child of the river and the South; title: Antebellum black music and white minstrelsy; title: Mark Twain grows; title: Huckleberry Finn; title: Black minstrelsy and the rise of ragtime; title: African American music and the white response. Race in America from the 1890s to the 1920s; title: The primal blues, their first popularizer, their first star; title: The birth of jazz, in New Orleans and New York City; title: Louis; title: The blues women; title: White people and jazz and its flowering in New York; title: The flood, and the blues that followed; title: Swing; title: Robert Johnson; title: "Spirituals to swing" and after; title: Bop and the music of the '40s; title: Muddy Waters and Louis Jordan change the blues; title: Folk roots and '50s rock; title: The Beats and folk emerge and jazz ascends; title: The blues revival; title: The man who brought it all back home. Bob Zimmerman becomes Bob Dylan; title: Dylan in New York; title: The movement and changes; title: An existential troubadour; title: Home again to rock 'n' roll.