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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rowden, Terry
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Corporealities. Discourses of disability
Subjects:
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
African American musicians.
Blind musicians.
Physical Description:171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Blind Tom and the cultural politics of visibility
  • Blind in blue : blindness and identity in the blues tradition
  • The souls of blind folk : blindness and blind people in African American spiritual and gospel music
  • Blindness and the rhetoric of "genius" : Art Tatum, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Ray Charles
  • The inner and outer visions of Stevie Wonder.