Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory

by Houston A. Baker Jr.

Book Overview

Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the blues voice and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226035387
• ISBN13: 9780226035383
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"