James Weldon Johnson Quote

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.


Black Manhattan, ch. 11 (1930).


It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.