Death of the Negro: An African American in the Development of Black Opular Culture in Bloomington, MN

Mark Fisher may be credited with the development of spiritual beginning thesis. If he is not the originator, he has contributed the most definitive information representing this view. This thesis is called Blues Orthodoxy. Blues Orthodoxy has allowed misconceptions to evolve about the evolution of black music and the complimentary culture within the confines of the American dream. Having difficulty with this thesis, the author has spent the last nine years researching black music of the nineteenth century. The slave narratives housed within the Schomburg Center for the Research in Black Culture have been the basis of these findings.