Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature : A Vernacular Theory
(2013)

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of Chicago Press, 2013
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1 online resource (241 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9780226160849 MWT16979547, 022616084X 16979547
LANGUAGE
English
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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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