Whose blues?: Facing up to race and the future of the music

Starting the conversation

Blues conditions

Blues feelings and "real blues men"

Blues expressiveness and the blues ethos

W.C. Handy and the "birth" of the blues

Langston Hughes and the scandal of early blues poetry

Zora Neale Hurston in the Florida jooks

Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the Southern blues violences

The blues revival and the black arts movement

Giving it all away: blues harmonica education in the digital age

Turnaround.