Blues People: Negro Music in White America

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Corcoran, Michael. "The Soul of Blind Willie Johnson". Austin American-Statesman. Archived from the original on October 30, 2005 . Retrieved February 3, 2009. Sylviane A. Diouf, "What Islam Gave the Blues", Renovatio, June 17, 2019. Retrieved August 17, 2023 Perhaps. But today nothing succeeds like rebellion (which Jones as a “beat” poet should know) and while a few boppers went to Europe to escape, or became Muslims, others took the usual tours for the State Department. Whether this makes them“middle class” in Jones’s eyes I can’t say, but his assertions—which are fine as personal statement—are not in keeping with the facts; his theory flounders before that complex of human motives which makes human history, and which is so characteristic of the American Negro.

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." Perhaps not the best book for the blues initiate, but probably one of the best you could read on the subject, with a non-obnoxious, somewhat sociological slant on the theme. Dicaire, David (2001). More Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Artists from the Later 20th Century. McFarland. pp.232–248. ISBN 9780786410354. Brozman, Bob (2002). "The Evolution of the 12-Bar Blues Progression". Archived from the original on May 25, 2010 . Retrieved May 2, 2009. Handy, W.C. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. Ed. Arna Bontemps. New York: Macmillan, 1941. p. 143.Partridge, Eric (2002). A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-29189-7. But Monson offers praise for the book in general. " Blues People is a brilliant and path-breaking book, not because all of its factual information is correct, or because all of its interpretive perspectives are unassailable, but because of the sheer audacity, scope and originality of its interpretive perspective," she wrote. He put my book down in his book," Baraka says, still stinging from Ellison's criticism five decades later. "I came with a sociological analysis of the blues that he didn't want to accept. He had a romantic kind of conception: The blues is just music that comes out of... But I was trying to find out why. [Sterling] Brown said if you study the actual music and the lyrics, they're talking about their lives. What do you think they're talking about? Some fantasy world? They're talking about their lives in America. And for Ralph not to understand that I think was a fundamental flaw in his understanding." From the '70s to today, Baraka remains prolific, and has written an autobiography, essays and poetry. He's continued to publish books about music. But by far, Blues People remains his most influential work about music. Congratulations to BLUES PEOPLE for winning the 2023-2024 INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE (Northern NJ)... and their upcoming appearance at the INC International competition in Memphis!

Rhodes, Richard (2006). John James Audubon: The Making of an American. Random House. p.302. ISBN 9780375713934. Vierwo, Barbara; Trudeau, Andy (2005). The Curious Listener's Guide to the Blues. Stone Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-399-53072-2. The second best is the vitriol Baraka has for just about every facet of 200 years of popular American culture. In this history, music doesn't reach mainstream ears until it has been corrupted, diluted and stripped of meaning. Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) and Sonny Terry are well known harmonica (called " harp" by blues musicians) players of the early Chicago blues scene. Other harp players such as Big Walter Horton were also influential. Muddy Waters and Elmore James were known for their innovative use of slide electric guitar. Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters were known for their deep, "gravelly" voices.

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