In Afro-Blue Tony Bolden traces the ways innovations in black music and poetry have driven the evolution of a variety of other American vernacular artistic forms. The blues tradition, Bolden demonstrates, plays a key role in the relationship between poetry and vernacular expressive forms. Through an analysis of the formal qualities of blues music, Afro-Blue shows that it functions as a form of resistance, affirming the values and style of life that oppose bourgeois morality.…
Author: Tony Bolden · Original publisher: University of Illinois Press (Urbana, 2004)
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