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On Highway 61, music, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom, Dennis McNally

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Dennis McNally

music, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom

Explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. Searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan

I: Race and the freedom principle in nineteenth-century America. America and Henry Thoreau -- A child of the river and the South -- Antebellum black music and white minstrelsy -- Mark Twain grows -- Huckleberry Finn -- Black minstrelsy and the rise of ragtime -- II: African American music and the white response. Race in America from the 1890s to the 1920s -- The primal blues, their first popularizer, their first star -- The birth of jazz, in New Orleans and New York City -- Louis -- The blues women -- White people and jazz and its flowering in New York -- The flood, and the blues that followed -- Swing -- Robert Johnson -- "Spirituals to swing" and after -- Bop and the music of the '40s -- Muddy Waters and Louis Jordan change the blues -- Folk roots and '50s rock -- The beats and folk emerge and jazz ascends -- The blues revival -- III: The man who brought it all back home. Bob Zimmerman becomes Bob Dylan -- Dylan in New York -- The movement and changes -- An existential troubadour -- Home again to rock 'n' roll

On Highway Sixty-oneMusic, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom