BLUES, IDEOLOGY AND AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE by Houston A. Baker ( 9780226035383 )

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Title:

BLUES, IDEOLOGY AND AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
A VERNACULAR THEORY

By:

Houston A. Baker

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0226035387

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 February, 1987

Pages:

240

Description:

Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

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University of Chicago Press

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