Seems Like Murder Here

Gussow, Adam

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Social Disappointment and The Negro Problem1

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“…I began to hum a tune -a little sighing kinda tune -you know like this… "Jes as blue as a tree -an old willow treenobody 'round here, jes nobody but me." 66 Would there have been any blues or the blues that we have come to know and love if the United States had attempted to answer the Negro problem differently? This question is the question I want would like you to keep in mind as your read the…”

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Philosophy, Education, and After-the-Lynching Blues

Lawson

2015

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IntroductIonI am reminded of a line written by Sam Greenlee in his novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Greenlee writes, "A man could get to be a philosopher listening to the Blues." 1 I think that there is some truth to that claim. As a young man, I grew up listening to Kay Williams on WDAS radio in Philadelphia. He introduced me to all forms of black music on his morning show. He loved the blues. Every morning I was treated to the sounds of B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Tarheel Slim and Little Ann, Memphis Slim, KoKo Taylor, and a host of others blues and rhythm and blues greats. I can still remember his playing such blues songs

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