Wow! eBook
Black Talk: How the Music of Black America Created a Radical Alternative to the Values of Western Literary Tradition. New Edition
Author(s): Ben Sidran (Author)
- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
- Publication Date: April 6, 1995
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0862415373
- ISBN-13: 9780862415372
Book Description
Black music has always expressed, consciously or not, its African oral heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a white majority. This book is a partly sociological, partly musical study of black American culture which focuses particularly on the blues, jazz and rhythm and blues of this century. It provides an understanding Afro-American culture and an appreciation of its influence on 20th-century culture as a whole.
