Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music

by Adam Gussow

Book Overview

Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469660369
• ISBN13: 9781469660363
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"