Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945
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Availability:In StockContributor:R. a. LawsonSeries:Making the Modern SouthPublish date:2013-03-11Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807152270ISBN-10:807152277UPC:9780807152270Book Category:History, MusicBook Subcategory:United States, Genres & StylesBook Topic:State & Local, Blues, JazzSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC6DMR1VCH
Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945
In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form--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...
Series: Making the Modern South
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807152270ISBN-10:807152277UPC:9780807152270Book Category:History, MusicBook Subcategory:United States, Genres & StylesBook Topic:State & Local, Blues, JazzSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC6DMR1VCH
R. A. "Stovetop" Lawson is professor of history at Dean College and associate editor of the New England Journal of History. He lives in Bellingham, Massachusetts.
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