Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature

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 "e;vernacular"e; level. He shows how the "e;blues voice"e; and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.