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The songs of blind folk : African American musicians and the cultures of blindness / Terry Rowden.

Title
The songs of blind folk : African American musicians and the cultures of blindness / Terry Rowden.
Author
Rowden, Terry.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.

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Description
171 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Corporealities
Uniform Title
Corporealities.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Blind Tom and the Cultural Politics of Visibility -- Ch. 2. Blind in Blue Blindness and Identity in the Blues Tradition -- Ch. 3. The Souls of Blind Folk Blindness and Blind People in African American Spiritual and Gospel Music -- Ch. 4. Blindness and the Rhetoric of "Genius" Art Tatum, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Ray Charles -- Ch. 5. The Inner and Outer Visions of Stevie Wonder.
ISBN
  • 9780472070640 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0472070649 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780472050642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0472050648 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009014542
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries