Julia Simon is Professor of French and is on the faculty of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of five books, including The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity, also published by Penn State University Press.
“A fresh and much-needed accounting of the economic and political
ramifications of blues lyrics.”—D. V. Moskowitz Choice
“A fabulous and much-needed book. It is a pioneering study of
musicking, protest, and political economy, a call for reparations
even as it directs our attention to that call in the blues. It will
open our eyes, unclog our ears, and strengthen our hearts to learn
that Black musicians have been leading us to justice all along. It
is up to us to follow.”—Charles McGovern, author of Sold American:
Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945
“Simon’s overall argument is compelling, her scholarship
surpassingly good, and her exegeses of individual blues songs are
consistently insightful and even scintillating. Debt and Redemption
in the Blues is a major work of blues scholarship.”—Adam Gussow,
author of Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues
Tradition
“By synthesizing an understudied body of literature, Debt and
Redemption in the Blues presents a wide variety of original
interpretations. The balance of the logic in Julia Simon’s
ethno-musical analysis and the imagination of selecting
thematically relevant expressions deepens our understanding of
Black history and culture.”—Walter D. Greason, author of Suburban
Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New
Jersey
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