Ebook {Epub PDF} Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka

Blues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones, first published in by William Morrow, was the first book on blues written by an African-American critic. Jones, who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka, is a poet, author, novelist, playwright, political Cited by: Blues People (Negro Music in White America) is a seminal study of Afro-American music (and culture generally) by Amiri Baraka, who published it as LeRoi Jones in [1] In Blues People Baraka explores the possibility that the history of black Americans can be traced through the evolution of their music. It is considered a classic work on jazz and blues music in American culture.  · In his introduction, Amiri Baraka states that Blues People: Negro Music in White America is a theoretical book exploring the movement of black Americans from African slaves to American citizens.

The book explores the place of jazz and blues in American cultural and social history and it documents the evolution of African American music in white America. Baraka's groundbreaking study. Writer, poet, playwright, activist, music critic, and walking bullshit-detector Amiri Baraka died yesterday at the age of though. 's Blues People: Negro Music in White America is an. So says Amiri Baraka (previously known as LeRoi Jones) in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro.

Blues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones, first published in by William Morrow, was the first book on blues written by an African-American critic. Jones, who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka, is a poet, author, novelist, playwright, political activist, and pioneer of the Black Arts Movement. Blues People - Negro Music in White America Black Music The essential collection of jazz writing by the celebrated poet and author of Blues People—reissued with a new introduction by the author. In the s, LeRoi Jones—who would later be known as Amiri Baraka—was a pioneering jazz critic, articulating in real time the. So says Amiri Baraka (previously known as LeRoi Jones) in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America—not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music.