Author: Jones, LeRoi,
Title: Blues People: the Negro experience in white America and the music that developed from it.
Description: NY, Morrow Quill, (1963). 16th ptg. VG PB. ".first book on jazz by a Negro writer with provocative conclusions bolstered by history and sociology."Langston Hughes. ".a fresh, incisively instructive reinterpretation of Negro music in America.crucially relevant to Negro-white relationships today." Nat Hentoff "The first real attempt to place jazz and the blues within the context of American social history.traces not only he development of the Negro music which affected white America, but also the Negro values which affected white America." Library Journal Corner page creases.

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