The preacher they called the “Blues King”
By: Erwin Bosman, © 2012 – www.
myblues.
eu
Acknowledgement:
The bulk of the information comes from Dr.
David Evans (°) who traced Ruben
Lacy in 1966.
I sincerely thank Dr.
Evans for reading a draft of this essay...
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The preacher they called the “Blues King”
By: Erwin Bosman, © 2012 – www.
myblues.
eu
Acknowledgement:
The bulk of the information comes from Dr.
David Evans (°) who traced Ruben
Lacy in 1966.
I sincerely thank Dr.
Evans for reading a draft of this essay and
formulating very useful comments to it.
The final version with its
shortcomings remains of course my sole responsibility.
Too often the blues is only seen as a reaction from the African-American populace to
the oppressive environment that it was brought to.
While this view is certainly
substantiated, as a single approach it seriously limits the comprehension of what the
blues represent.
More than only the result of a group’s passive reaction to the
constraints imposed on it, the blues are the positive outcome of an intelligent,
selective and complex process of acculturation of African-Americans to a social and
cultural environment that was totally foreign to them.
Stripped from everything but
their spirits when they came as
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