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A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America''s most popular music. — Langston Hughes

The path the slave took to ''citizenship'' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen''s music—through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music.

So says Amiri Baraka (previously known as LeRoi Jones) in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960''s, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls negro music on white America—not only in t

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/01/1999
      ISBN13: 9780688184742, 978-0688184742
      ISBN10: 068818474X
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      Book Synopsis

      A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America''s most popular music. — Langston Hughes

      The path the slave took to ''citizenship'' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen''s music—through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music.

      So says Amiri Baraka (previously known as LeRoi Jones) in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960''s, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls negro music on white America—not only in t

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