Jim Crow's counterculture : the blues and Black southerners, 1890-1945 / R.A. Lawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawson, R. A., 1974-

Series:

Making the modern South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--Southern States--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

Social conditions.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2010]

Summary:

Although an academic, Lawson (history, Dean College, Massachusetts) has a rhythm in his writing that no doubt arises from his close involvement with the music. He offers readers an understanding of the political dimensions of music in general as well as how a study of music reveals the history of particular times and places. His primary subject is the blues and what this form of music--its creation, reception, migration, and evolution--tells about the history of Blacks in America during the time period under consideration (1890-1945). Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-265) and index.

Includes discography: pages [201]-210.

ISBN:

9780807136805

0807136808

OCLC:

553368154