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Adam Gussow - Whose Blues
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In this episode, I speak with Blues Harmonica Legend, Dr. Adam Gussow about his most recent book "Whose Blues - Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music" If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music," as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? Award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition’s major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow’s thought-provoking book kickstarts a long-overdue conversation. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfYHJbTZklgZU1bEVLaZyvQ
https://youtu.be/tGZXMr2TGUA
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469660363/whose-blues/
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https://lnk.bio/d_pearl_lee?fbclid=IwAR0pr98i-Nqnlmi8jofRB8aMGqg-EfKnN24V9cMcZuM2MVOCQWL7R-6AyIkAnd follow Mrs. Pearrley on Instagram @d_pearl_lee
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96 episoder
Manage episode 279595047 series 2283011
In this episode, I speak with Blues Harmonica Legend, Dr. Adam Gussow about his most recent book "Whose Blues - Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music" If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music," as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? Award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition’s major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow’s thought-provoking book kickstarts a long-overdue conversation. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfYHJbTZklgZU1bEVLaZyvQ
https://youtu.be/tGZXMr2TGUA
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469660363/whose-blues/
For more information on the healthy alternative for coffee -
https://lnk.bio/d_pearl_lee?fbclid=IwAR0pr98i-Nqnlmi8jofRB8aMGqg-EfKnN24V9cMcZuM2MVOCQWL7R-6AyIkAnd follow Mrs. Pearrley on Instagram @d_pearl_lee
To Donate to Jack Dappa Blues https://paypal.me/LamontJack?locale.x=en_US
96 episoder
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