Debt And Redemption In The Blues: The Call For Justice (American Music History)

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.

• | Author: Julia Simon
• | Publisher: Penn State University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 18, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 254 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0271094958
• | ISBN-13: 9780271094953