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Artists like Blind Arthur Blake, Sonny Terry, Arizona Dranes, and Art Tatum have appeared throughout the history of popular music in America - the list of visually impaired black musicians is long. This book examines the ways that blindness, like blackness, shaped both the music these artists produced and the way the nation received it.

The Songs of Blind Folk

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 9/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472070640, 978-0472070640
      ISBN10: 0472070649
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      Theory of music and musicology Cultural studies Disability: social aspects

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Artists like Blind Arthur Blake, Sonny Terry, Arizona Dranes, and Art Tatum have appeared throughout the history of popular music in America - the list of visually impaired black musicians is long. This book examines the ways that blindness, like blackness, shaped both the music these artists produced and the way the nation received it.

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