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Jim Crow's counterculture : the blues and Black southerners, 1890-1945 / R.A. Lawson

Lawson, Rob Alan,i1974- [Verfasser]

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 275 pages) : Illustrations

Making the modern South

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index

Includes discography (pages 201-210)

978-0-8071-3810-6 ; 0-8071-3810-X ; 978-0-8071-3680-5

LS 48500

 

f Verzeichnis  USA. Südstaaten  Blues  Tonträger  Geschichte 1890-1945 

In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley began to create a new musical form that lamented Jim Crow's social, legal and economic restrictions--the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R.A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians in the segregation era, explaining how by both accommodating and resisting Jim Crow life, blues musicians created a counterculture to incubate and nurture ideas of black individuality and citizenship. These individuals, Lawson shows, collectively demonstrate the African-American struggle during early twentieth century.