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.
- ISBN10 0226035387
- ISBN13 9780226035383
- Publish Date 15 February 1987 (first published 1 February 1985)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 295
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780226035383