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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.Baker, Houston A., Jr. is the author of 'Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature', published 1987 under ISBN 9780226035383 and ISBN 0226035387.
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