The inconvenient Lonnie Johnson : blues, race, identity / Julia Simon.
"Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His viruosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. A master of multiple instruments, Johnson recorded with jazz icons such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstro...
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | American music history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Lonnie Johnson, professional musician
- Musical practice and place : the cultural history of New Orleans and St. Louis
- Self-construction and self-awareness : Lonnie Johnson's persona
- Social relations : race, gender, and the perception of systemic complexity
- The suffering self : isolation and loneliness
- Conclusion : performance and the socially embedded self.