This study attempts to place jazz and the blues within the context of American social history. The author, Leroi Jones - also known as the poet Amiri Baraka - combines a knowledge of black American culture with his direct contact with many of the musicians who have provided the backbone to this vital strand of American 20th-century culture. This edition includes an introduction by the author in which he updates the book in order to take account of developments made in the past 30 years.
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This study attempts to place jazz and the blues within the context of American social history. The author, Leroi Jones - also known as the poet Amiri Baraka - combines a knowledge of black American culture with his direct contact with many of the musicians who have provided the backbone to this vital strand of American 20th-century culture. This edition includes an introduction by the author in which he updates the book in order to take account of developments made in the past 30 years.
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By far, this is the best, most concise account of where and when the unique American musical art form known as the blues (and jazz) came to be. Leroi Jones was a trusted source for music as well as social knowledge and he combines the two as a means of explaining and describing the growth of blues music up through the 1960s. The final chapter takes a quick look at where blues/jazz went after the pop music industry got involved with spin-off genres like funk, for example. Jones puts ownership of blues and jazz where it belongs: with the African-Americans who created it.
