Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong

By Mark Reynolds

For the most part, blacks were not involved in the heroic work of rescuing the black acoustic blues legacy from the passage of time. [3 July 2008]

(more Negritude 2.0)

In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton

By Chadwick Jenkins

This is a different story of the blues; it is the story of those people (primarily white men and women) who were in search of something that they believed the blues or some other form of secular and "primitive" African-American music communicated in an undiluted manner. [7 March 2008]