TY  - GEN
T1  - The inconvenient Lonnie Johnson : blues, race, identity
T2  - American music history.
A1  - Simon, Julia, 1961-
LA  - English
PP  - University Park, Pennsylvania
PB  - The Pennsylvania State University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1350921971
AB  - "Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His viruosity 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. A master of multiple instruments, Johnson recorded with jazz icons such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong and played vaudeville music, ballads, and popular songs. The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson reassesses Johnson's musical legacy, complicating basic assumptions about the blues, its production, and its reception. Julia Simon presents detailed analyses of Johnson's music - his lyrics, technique, and styles - with particular attention to its sociohistorical context. What she reveals is a musician who 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." --
OP  - 227
CN  - ML419.J625 S56 2022eb
SN  - 9780271093734
SN  - 0271093730
SN  - 0271093722
SN  - 9780271093727
SN  - 9780271092553
SN  - 0271092556
KW  - Johnson, Lonnie, : 1894-1970 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Johnson, Lonnie, : 1894-1970
KW  - Blues (Music) : History and criticism.
KW  - Music and race : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Musique et race : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues
KW  - Blues (Music)
KW  - Music and race
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -