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Debt and redemption in the blues : the call for justice / Julia Simon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American music historyPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (x, 244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271096735
  • 027109673X
  • 9780271096728
  • 0271096721
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Debt and redemption in the blues.DDC classification:
  • 782.42164309 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3918.B57 S55 2023eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Sharecropping, tenancy, and house contract sales -- Coercion, debt peonage, and convict labor -- The blues, commodification, and capitalism -- From debt to redemption -- A history of relief -- The call for justice in the blues.
Summary: "Explores lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal in the blues, revealing deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Argues that blues music calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular and moral justice-to-come"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sharecropping, tenancy, and house contract sales -- Coercion, debt peonage, and convict labor -- The blues, commodification, and capitalism -- From debt to redemption -- A history of relief -- The call for justice in the blues.

"Explores lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal in the blues, revealing deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Argues that blues music calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular and moral justice-to-come"-- Provided by publisher.

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