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The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson - Blues, Race, Identity (Hardcover)
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The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson - Blues, Race, Identity (Hardcover)
Series: American Music History
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Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues
guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone
Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet
Johnson mastered multiple instruments. He recorded with jazz icons
such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, and he played
vaudeville music, ballads, and popular songs. In this book, Julia
Simon takes a closer look at Johnson's musical legacy. Considering
the full body of his work, Simon presents detailed analyses of
Johnson's music-his lyrics, technique, and styles-with particular
attention to its sociohistorical context. Born in 1894 in New
Orleans, Johnson's early experiences were shaped by French colonial
understandings of race that challenge the Black-white binary. His
performances call into question not only conventional
understandings of race but also fixed notions of identity. Johnson
was able to cross generic, stylistic, and other boundaries almost
effortlessly, displaying astonishing adaptability across a corpus
of music produced over six decades. Simon introduces us to a
musical innovator and a performer keenly aware of his audience and
the social categories of race, class, and gender that conditioned
the music of his time. Lonnie Johnson's music challenges us to
think about not only what we recognize and value in "the blues" but
also what we leave unexamined, cannot account for, or choose not to
hear. The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson provides a reassessment of
Johnson's musical legacy and complicates basic assumptions about
the blues, its production, and its reception.
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