Blues Aesthetics: : an African American Experience in the Development of Black P

When, it was decided that blues would be treated as the metaphor for the study of the development and advancement of Black Popular Culture in particular and the cultural development of the United States in general, the idea was to have a sound basis in which to place my analysis. With blues one cannot go wrong. Why? It has chronicled the political economy of the United States of American since slavery. The analytic tool that has been used to inform this process is the Law of Position, a Position Theory. The Law of Position, a Position Theory is a paradigm that has as it basic premise, "we take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that in order to make an indication we must make a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form." (G. Spencer-Brown)