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Ralph Ellison, the literary maven and cultural critic, states, βThe blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in oneβs aching consciousness.Β .Β .Β . As a form, the Blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically
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Otis Moss III (Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in an Age of Despair)