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 Time in the Blues and Rousseau Among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics, the latter also published by Penn State University Press. She hosts the podcast Blues on My Mind.
“With an impressive command of primary and secondary literature,
including archival materials, The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson makes
an original contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary
scholarly work that seeks to understand music’s connection to
politics, society, and ethnicity. Simon’s work is subtle and
sophisticated.”—Charles Hersch, author of Jews and Jazz:
Improvising Ethnicity
“A scrupulously researched, exceedingly well-written, and deeply
insightful work of original scholarship. Surprisingly, there is
very little written about Johnson; Simon’s book thus fills a giant
hole in the literature on American jazz, blues, and popular music
from the first part of the twentieth century.”—Andrew Berish,
author of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility,
and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s
“[A]n engaging and informative read for the hobbyist and novices to
the history of blues music.”—Monica F. Ambalal Journal of Jazz
Studies
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