Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945

by R.A. Lawson

Book Overview

In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form--the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians in the segregation era, explaining how by both accommodating and resisting Jim Crow life, blues musicians created a counterculture to incubate and nurture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807152277
• ISBN13: 9780807152270
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"