Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of Music

In Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of Music (UNC Press), scholar and performer Adam Gussow ’79 *00 takes a fresh, unflinching look at the blues through a historical and cultural lens, engaging in a frank discussion about cultural appropriation and the genre’s controversial shift from blues as a unique means of black performance to its modern place as a vibrant music genre comprising a wide mix of ethnicities.