This book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one.Īs early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths. Chris Thomas King - The Blues: The Authentic Narrative Of My Music And Culture PAPERBACK BOOK An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artistĪll prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta.
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