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Music history

Blues People

By Amiri Baraka

About this book

Amiri Baraka connects the history of Black music with changes in Black American life from slavery through emancipation, migration, and urbanization. Blues and jazz give him ways to talk about work, community, and an audience’s relationship to a performance. The book can be read alongside recordings to consider what a musical form carries from one generation to the next.

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Paperback · Harper Perennial · ISBN 9780688184742

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Edition and subjects

Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Edition date
1970-01
First published
1963
Art, Culture & Creative Expression Music, Musicians & the Arts Black music Cultural criticism Multiple periods Blues Jazz Adults

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