The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson by Julia Simon

The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson by Julia Simon

Explores the work of professional blues musician Lonnie Johnson, demonstrating how his recorded works reveal lyrical and musical themes that call into question critical assumptions about the genre.

“With an impressive command of primary and secondary literature, including archival materials, The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson makes an original contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarly work that seeks to understand music’s connection to politics, society, and ethnicitySimon’s work is subtle and sophisticated.”

—Charles Hersch, author of Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity

“A scrupulously researched, exceedingly well-written, and deeply insightful work of original scholarship. Surprisingly, there is very little written about Johnson; Simon’s book thus fills a giant hole in the literature on American jazz, blues, and popular music from the first part of the twentieth century.”

—Andrew Berish, author of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s

“[A]n engaging and informative read for the hobbyist and novices to the history of blues music.”

—Monica F. Ambalal Journal of Jazz Studies

Julia Simon is Professor of French and is on the faculty of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Time in the Blues and Rousseau Among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics, the latter also published by Penn State University Press. She hosts the podcast Blues on My Mind.

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ISBN 13	9780271092553
ISBN 10	0271092556
Title	The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson
Author	Julia Simon
Series	American Music History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2022-04-05
Number of pages	236
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.