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The Blues Image in the White Mind: Blues Historiography and White Romantic Racialism
Ist Teil von
Popular music and society, 2014, Vol.37 (4), p.476-494
Ort / Verlag
Bowling Green, Ohio: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Quelle
Taylor & Francis:Master (3349 titles)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Applying the historical concept of "romantic racialism" as introduced by George Fredrickson in The Black Image in the White Mind, this article highlights the paradoxical continuum of racialism running through opposing schools of dominant blues historiography in the United States. From right, center, and left, white researchers on African-American blues music and people approached their work with competing political outlooks, and yet they shared an underlying collective investment in the blues that was always more than musical. Whether derogatory or sympathetic, the blues image in the white mind was one of certain contradiction, but also surprising continuity.