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Whose Blues? - Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music (Hardcover)
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Whose Blues? - Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music (Hardcover)
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Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the
pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market
for "race records". Not long after, such records also brought black
blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century
later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a
multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far
beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody
is happy about that. If there's "No black. No white. Just the
blues", as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people
hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural
appropriation and an erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep
in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music",
as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the
vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of
nationalities and ethnicities? In Whose Blues?, award-winning blues
scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging
questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural
anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues
for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition's major
writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston,
and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the
blues performance scene, Gussow's thought-provoking book kickstarts
a long overdue conversation.
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