A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music. -- Langston Hughes 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 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...
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...