Indianapolis Blues 1985

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Indianapolis Blues 1985

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=ohrc069

These interviews trace the life histories of five blues musicians in Indianapolis, Indiana. The interviewees discuss their experiences, their knowledge of blues and jazz, and their musical contemporaries. In addition, several comment on the segregation and racism that characterized life in the earlier part of the twentieth century.

5 interviews; Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials

eng,

Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory

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