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Blues People: Negro Music in White America

By LeRoi Jones
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Unabridged — 8 hours, 54 minutes
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By LeRoi Jones
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Unabridged — 8 hours, 54 minutes
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“The path the slave took to `citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music-through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz...[If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music.”

So says Amiri Baraka in the introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of ja...