A review by bscott3
The Spirituals and the Blues by James H. Cone

5.0

As usual, Cone beautifully bears witness to the Black experience. This time, he lays out a basic primer on Black music and how it has been used to affirm Black humanity and survival. Though the spirituals and the blues have often been pit against each other (the blues being more “secular and profane”), Cone argues that they are two sides of the same struggle for surviving a white racist world. Grateful for his voice always.