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Blues people : Negro music in white America
Title
Blues people : Negro music in white America / by LeRoi Jones.
ISBN
068818474X
9780688184742
Published
New York : W. Morrow, ©1963.
Physical Description
xii, 244 pages ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4479: Number line: "11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20" on title page verso indicates 11th printing. Paperbound. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany throughout. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones.
Includes index.
Summary
Examines the history of the Negro in America through the music he created.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The Negro as Non-American, Some Backgrounds
The Negro as Property
African Slaves, Their Music
Afro-Christian Music and Religion
Slave and Post-Slave
Primitive Blues and Primitive Jazz
Classic Blues
The City
Enter the Middle Class
Swim, From Verb to Noun
The Modern Scene.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Jazz.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Jazz.
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Working Library.
United States New York (State) New York.
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