“Key to the highway”: blues records and the great migration by Louis Mazzari

“…The paper will explore blues music as an expression of the fluidity of African American society and culture during the Great Depression.While avoiding direct protest, blues singers and musicians—first women, later men—crafted an art form and employed the technology of the phonograph to encourage freedom of movement and choice. …”
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Blacking Up : Une histoire du rock au prisme du blackface by Keivan Djavadzadeh

“…On the basis of an analysis of rock music, its origins and its transatlantic circulations, I will examine the racial politics of popular music and postulate a continuity of the blackface cycle. …”
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