ISBN:
9780807138106
,
080713810X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 275 pages)
,
Illustrations
Series Statement:
Making the modern South
DDC:
781.6430975/09041
Keywords:
Geschichte 1890-1945
;
Blues
;
Tonträger
;
USA Südstaaten
;
Verzeichnis
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index
,
Includes discography (pages 201-210)
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