In printPractitioner accountWritten from inside the tradition
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) · William Morrow · 1963
Why this source matters
The founding argument that blues form is inseparable from Black social life and movement; written from inside Black cultural criticism and still the reference point every later blues history argues with.
Documents these traditions
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