Sonny's Blues
Sonny's Blues
How do the Blues that Sonny plays help the narrator to connect to his heritage and understand something about racial oppression and suffering?
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The narrator explains that the blues are "the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph". Music becomes a channel through which Sonny and the narrator can understand their world and their past.
