Jim Crow's counterculture: the blues and Black southerners, 1890-1945
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Main Author: Lawson, R. A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2010
Series:Making the modern South
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index
Includes discography (pages 201-210)
Call and response : the blues of accommodation, the blues of resistance -- To be Black is to be blue : the blues profession and negotiating the "Black place" during Jim Crow -- Leavin' the Jim Crow town : the great migration and the blues's broadening horizon -- Jim Crow's war for democracy : the blues people and World War I -- Workin' on the project : the blues of the great flood and Great Depression -- Uncle Sam called me : World War II and the blues counterculture of inclusion
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 275 pages)
ISBN:0807136808
080713810X
9780807136805
9780807138106

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