Bøker av W. T. Lhamon

Examining works by figures as varied as Miles Davis, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Little Richard, Charlie Parker, Jackson Pollock, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein-Lhamon demonstrates how many of the distinctive elements attributed to the revolutionary period of the 1960s had their roots in the fertile soil of the 1950s.

Unearthing long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to consider, and overturning ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Jazz Singer, the author offers an original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating.