“The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and - TopicsExpress



          

“The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in ones aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.” ― Ralph Ellison, Living with Music: Jazz Writings
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