Title: Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes
Subtitle: Lyrics, Album Notes and Critical Essays
Description: Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes is a hybrid work of music writing and cultural criticism that brings together lyrics, album notes, and critical essays rooted in Black American music as lived practice. Written in conversation with three connected albums, it treats songs as evidence of inheritance shaped by history, labor, survival, and family memory. Blade writes from inside the tradition, reflecting on lineage, the ethics of listening, and what it means to carry the blues forward in the present.
Subjects: Cultural criticism, Music, history and criticism, Creative nonfiction, LGBTQ Studies, African American Studies, African American authors, LGBTQ authors, Music, Slavery, united states, history, Great Migration, Blues (Music), Chicago Blues, Culture - African American, Sharecropping -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology
Places: Chicago (Ill.)
People: African Americans, LGBTQ people