Language of the Blues: What Does 'Captain' Reveal About Power and Resistance in the Blues?
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Language of the Blues: What Does 'Captain' Reveal About Power and Resistance in the Blues?
Editor’s note: In The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to ZuZu, author and rocker Debra Devi explores the meaning of a word or phrase from a blues song. The award-winning book includes a foreword by Dr. John and is blurbed by Bonnie Raitt and Joe Bonamassa. The overseer of a plantation was “the captain” and was typically addressed by the slaves as “Captain.” As renowned blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow, who was raised in Mississippi, said in …
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