Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music by Adam Gussow
Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music
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Adam Gussow
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Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music

Adam Gussow

332 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 internatio...

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