On highway 61 Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom.

"An essential volume for music lovers." -Oakland Tribune On Highway 61 searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution over the past 150 years-by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan. Starting out with nineteenth-century American thinkers such as social critic Henry David Thoreau and satirist Mark Twain...