It takes the average reader 2 hours and 55 minutes to read Afro-blue by Tony Bolden
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In Afro-Blue, Tony Bolden traces the ways innovations in black music and poetry have driven the evolution of a variety of other American vernacular artistic forms. The blues tradition, Bolden demonstrates, plays a key role in the relationship between poetry and vernacular expressive forms. Through an analysis of the formal qualities of black poetry and music, Afro-Blue shows that they function as a form of resistance, affirming the values and style of life that oppose bourgeois morality. Even before the term blues had cultural currency, the inscriptions of style and resistance embodied in the...
Afro-blue by Tony Bolden is 173 pages long, and a total of 43,769 words.
This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 59 minutes to read Afro-blue aloud.
Afro-blue is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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