Kennedy's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK

by Guido Van Rijn

Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK collects in a single volume the blues and gospel songs written by African Americans about the presidency of John F. Kennedy and offers a close analysis of Kennedy's hold upon the African-American imagination. These blues and gospel songs have never been transcribed and analyzed in a systematic way, so this volume provides a hitherto untapped source on the perception of one of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604738588
• ISBN13: 9781604738582
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"