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Author:

Lawson, R. A., 1974-

Title:

Jim Crow's counterculture : the blues and Black southerners, 1890-1945 / R.A. Lawson.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Blues (Music)--Southern States--History and criticism.
African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index. Includes discography: p. [201]-210.

Contents:

Call and response : the blues of accommodation, the blues of resistance -- To be Black is to be blue : the blues profession and negotiating the "Black place" during Jim Crow -- Leavin' the Jim Crow town : the great migration and the blues's broadening horizon -- Jim Crow's war for democracy : the blues people and World War I -- Workin' on the project : the blues of the great flood and Great Depression -- Uncle Sam called me : World War II and the blues counterculture of inclusion.

Series:

Making the modern South.

ISBN:

0807136808 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807136805 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)553368154

LCCN:

2010009319

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)