New blog....
Musings on the lyrics of blues as an expression of an existential philosophy. A natural rather than an academic philosophy, an implicit attitude for coping with the oppression and repression of segregation and discrimination against the descendants of enslaved Africans in North America but also with the experience of exploitation shared in common with the working poor and all the disadvantages that come with living in a society and culture shaped by money, property, and power...An approach to the blues inspired in part by Paul Garon's "Blues and the Poetic Spirit". The singular and unique experience of slavery in America was essential to the birth of the Blues but its universality and global appeal is its insight into the human condition from the bottom up...
http://poetryblues.blogspot.com/
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