| Description |
471 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-449) and index. |
| Summary |
Explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. Searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan. |
| Contents |
Race and the freedom principle in nineteenth-century America -- African American music and the White response -- The man who brought it all back home. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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United States. |
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Dylan, Bob, 1941- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dylan, Bob, 1941- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
On Highway Sixty-one |
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Music, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom |
| ISBN |
1619024497 (hardback) |
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9781619024496 (hardback) |
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