The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson - Blues, Race, Identity

Explores the work of professional blues musician Lonnie Johnson, demonstrating how his recorded works reveal lyrical and musical themes that call into question critical assumptions about the genre.

About the author

Julia Simon is Professor of French and is on the faculty of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Time in the Blues and Rousseau Among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics, the latter also published by Penn State University Press. She hosts the podcast Blues on My Mind.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Simon, Simon Julia
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2022
• EAN: 9780271092553
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09255-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: American Music History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Blues, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Popular Music