1984/01/01 by Houston A. Baker · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Music History and Culture #Blues #Ideology #History #Art #Art history #Political science #Politics #Law
paper · doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226160849.001.0001
openalex publication_date 1984/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/13
Relating the to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the blues voice and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.