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Examines the history of the Negro in America through the music he created.
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Afro-Americans, Jazz, Music, History and criticism, Negroes, Negro music, Jazz music, Blues (Songs, etc.), Le Cercle Modernist, Civilization, Geschichte, Blues (Music), African American music, African Americans, Noirs américains, Afroamerikanische Musik, Black musicians, Musique, History, French analysis By "Bonbel", Histoire et critique, Blues, Negers, Afro-American influences, Dominic Manieri Jazz and Swing Collection, Blacks, African americans, musicPlaces
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Blues people: Negro music in white America.
1970-06, William Morrow and Company
in English
068818474X 9780688184742
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Subtitle from cover: The negro experience in white America and the music that developed from it.
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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"...the first book on jazz by a negro writer...new and highly provocative conclusions bolstered by bothe history and sociology...a must for all who could more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music, Negros in origin -Blues based- but now belonging to everybody."
Langston Hugues
"Blues people is not only a fresh, incisively instructive reinterpretation of Negro music in America, but it is also crucially relevant to Negro-white relationship today."
Nat Hentoff
"The first real attempts to place jazz and the blues within the context of American social history. Moreover, it represents one of the first efforts of a Negro writer to examine that relationship, and certainly one of the most exhaustive by any...
Blues People is American musical history; it is also American cultural, economic and even emotional history. It traces not only the development of the Negros music which affected white America, but also the Negro value which affected white America."
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For a cool analysis (in french) of the book i recommend you this links : PART1 < www.le-cercle-modernist.com/le-roi-jones-le-peuple-du-blues > PART2 < www.le-cercle-modernist.com/leroi-jones-le-peuple-du-blues-seconde-partie >
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