One of my reading matters for summer is going to be Blues people: Negro music in white America by Leroi Jones (his original name is Amiri Baraka). He's an afro-american writer and music criticist, his main field of interest were jazz and blues. He even stands against (besides of many things) the white jazz. This book is focused on the same topic mentioned below, the birth of blues and its circumstances, and not only the blues but also the less known styles from that era.
If you want to know more about him, visit wikipedia:
or his homepage:
And an interesting thing: in the first post of my blog (Alabama) the words from the cover was a quotation by Leroi Jones.
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