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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781538450963
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ISBN: 9781538450956
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ISBN: 9781538450970
Runtime: | 8.90 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen’s music—through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz…[If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music.”
So says Amiri Baraka in the introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960s, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls “negro music” on white America—not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.
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Details
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Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
Runtime: | 8.90 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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