Moonlight blues

While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s ...

“Brilliant Corners: Improvisation and Practices of Freedom” is a critique of John Edgar Wideman’s novel,Sent for You Yesterday. The chapter interrogates Wideman’s attempt to expose...

Timothy Dodge explores African American interest in and participation in country music dates from the earliest days of the recording industry’s racial segregation of vernacular mus...

This chapter looks at Carmen Pursifull, who, like many of the writers of the first half of the twentieth century, were distanced from the radical politics of community ideologues a...