How long does it take to read Blues People?
Blues People by LeRoi Jones takes about 4 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 244 pages, about 67,100 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Blues People is a nonfiction study by Amiri Baraka, who originally wrote under the name LeRoi Jones. It traces the story of Black Americans by following how their music changed over time, starting with African musical traditions brought across the ocean by enslaved people and continuing into the twentieth century's sixties. Baraka argues that what he calls "negro music" drew in and shaped the wider nation. He treats jazz and blues as forces in American musical, economic and social life, as spreaders of values and customs, and as a personal record of a people, even once sold as a product.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Afro-Americans, Jazz, Music, History and criticism, Negroes, Negro music
