Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index.
Includes discography (pages 201-210).
Call and response : the blues of accommodation, the blues of resistance -- To be Black is to be blue : the blues profession and negotiating the "Black place" during Jim Crow -- Leavin' the Jim Crow town : the great migration and the blues's broadening horizon -- Jim Crow's war for democracy : the blues people and World War I -- Workin' on the project : the blues of the great flood and Great Depression -- Uncle Sam called me : World War II and the blues counterculture of inclusion.
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In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley began to create a new musical form that lamented Jim Crow's social, legal and economic restrictions--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 early twentieth century.
Jim Crow's counterculture.
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African Americans-- Southern States-- Social conditions-- 20th century.
Blues (Music)-- Southern States-- History and criticism.