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The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson
- Blues, Race, Identity
Engelsk Paperback
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The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson
- Blues, Race, Identity
Engelsk Paperback

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Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson mastered multiple instruments. He recorded with jazz icons such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, and he played vaudeville music, ballads, and popular songs. In this book, Julia Simon takes a closer look at Johnson’s musical legacy. Considering the full body of his work, Simon presents detailed analyses of Johnson’s music—his lyrics, technique, and styles—with particular attention to its sociohistorical context. Born in 1894 in New Orleans, Johnson's early experiences were shaped by French colonial understandings of race that challenge the Black-white binary. His performances call into question not only conventional understandings of race but also fixed notions of identity. Johnson was able to cross generic, stylistic, and other boundaries almost effortlessly, displaying astonishing adaptability across a corpus of music produced over six decades. Simon introduces us to a musical innovator and a performer keenly aware of his audience and the social categories of race, class, and gender that conditioned the music of his time. Lonnie Johnson’s music challenges us to think about not only what we recognize and value in “the blues” but also what we leave unexamined, cannot account for, or choose not to hear. The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson provides a reassessment of Johnson’s musical legacy and complicates basic assumptions about the blues, its production, and its reception.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
236
ISBN-13:
9780271092560
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0271092564
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2023
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Pennsylvania State University Press
Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2023
Forfatter(e):
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