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"A nuanced and absorbing account not only of the blues but also of the changes in the lives of the ordinary African Americans who sang and played them." -- David Murray, Journal of American Studies
"An innovative and creative cultural history that will be of interest to anyone studying the African American experience, culture as a means of resistance and accommodation, or the relationship between individual cultural producers and the consumers of their products." -- Ann Ostendorf, Journal of Southern History
In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form -- the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians in the segregation era, explaining how by both accommodating and resisting Jim Crow life, blues musicians created a counterculture to incubate and nurture ideas of black individuality and citizenship. These individuals, Lawson shows, collectively demonstrate the African American struggle during the early twentieth century.
By uncovering the stories of artists who expressed much in their music but left little record in traditional historical sources, Jim Crow's Counterculture offers a fresh perspective on the historical experiences of black Americans and provides a new understanding of the blues: a shared music that offered a message of personal freedom to repressed citizens.
R. A. "Stovetop" Lawson is associate professor of history at Dean College. He lives in Franklin, Massachusetts.
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