Blues Music in the Sixties: A Story in Black and White

Contents

• Introduction
• 1 Being Black Twice: Crossover Politics in
• B. B. King’s Music of the Late 1960s
• 2 Like I Was a Bear or Somethin’: Blues Performances
• at the Newport Folk Festival
• 3 Trying to Find an Identity: Eric Clapton’s
• Changing Conception of Blackness
• 4 Germany Gets the Blues: Race and Nation
• at the American Folk Blues Festival
• 5 Enough to Make You Want to Sing the Blues:
• Janis Joplin’s Life and Music
• 6 Resegregating the Blues: Race and Authenticity
• in the Pages of Living Blues
• Conclusion