Which would adhere to the popular understanding of blue and the blues: sad people singing sad songs. It would also be a misreading, or rather an overlooking, of the ways the color and the music ...

This is not to say “Black in Blues” is about music, although that’s part ... who Curtis Mayfield called ‘we the people who are darker than blue’ come to be?” Perry, of course, is ...

BLACK IN BLUES: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, by Imani Perry Blue is humanity’s favorite ... Most clearly in the blues, the genre of music that evolved from spirituals and work ...

There is the “ocean blue,” famously sailed by Columbus and later traversed by enslaved people on their ... bit — and metaphorical blues, like the genre of music, so beautifully described ...