Dying in the city of blues reflection

Overall, there are multiple layers of depth in this book as we discussed in class about how much the disease is "real" , how is Sickle Cell cultural, and how is it a political issue? I was most curious in this book about the connection to the music style of blues throughout the piece. When Wailoo uses lyrics from Mephis Minnie I could not help but be drawn to think about the Tuskegee Experiment by Don Byron's Tuskgee Experiment. Both authors first use music as a form of alternative expression. Blues came from and was adaptive from the hardships and difficulties of everyday life. In musical expression blues was song in a call and response format. So in Memphis Minni "Meningitis Blues", she would sing one verse and the idea was that her listeners would respond back with the same verse. In that sense, Sickle Cell pain can be a cultural and biological idea.