Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022)
Book and Media Reviews

Book Review: The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity. By Julia Simon. University Park: PA., Pennsylvania University Press, 2022. 236pp. $109.95.

Monica Ambalal
UC Santa Cruz
Bio

Published 2022-11-07

How to Cite

Ambalal, M. (2022). Book Review: The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity. By Julia Simon. University Park: PA., Pennsylvania University Press, 2022. 236pp. $109.95. Journal of Jazz Studies, 13(1), 69–72. https://doi.org/10.14713/jjs.v13i1.186

Abstract

In the newest biography of Lonnie Johnson, Julia Simon considers the bluesman as entrepreneur and musical mediator from the perspective of the era and space in which Johnson was raised and worked.