In Search of the Blues: The White Invention of Black Music

TONE DEAF

The "author" of this odd(odd in a bad way) book ignores or outright lies about the evidence for the reality of the music in question. In making her claims of a white manufacturing of what we think of as the music, she succumbs to a subtle and one hopes an unconscious distain for rural black folk, which is masked by an all to common pseudointellectualism.

Outstanding Book

Finally a book that reveals the long hidden truth about the Delta Blues, and how it is not an African American invention, but something created, mysticized, and nurtured by European Americans with fantasies of racial difference. (White people fetishizing all things Black) Contributing to many in the African American Community being labeled as the so-called 'Soul Man' or 'Ghetto' acting, who has to behave a certain way to be considered Black, in order to have their own racial identity.

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