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Reflecting on Le Roi Jones and Blues People Sixty Years Later: A Critical Re-Examination of Cultural Authority and Racial Identity in Jazz History
Reflecting on Le Roi Jones and Blues People Sixty Years Later: A Critical Re-Examination of Cultural Authority and Racial Identity in Jazz History

The publication of Le Roi Jones’s seminal work Blues People: Negro Music in White America in the mid-1960s sparked a profound intellectual and cultural reckoning that continues to resonate within…

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