Library of DanceBlues People: Negro Music in White America
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.

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