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.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8071-3810-X

OCLC:

680017944