“Key to the highway”: blues records and the great migration
This paper looks at the way “race record” blues of the 1920s and 1930s reinforced the decision of poor farmers, sharecroppers, and working men and women to move to the cities of the North. The theme is the way black southerners used the blues as the soundtrack of the Great Migration. In a sense, the...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5325 |