"Digitopia Blues is a sawy analysis of music, poetry, and the digital scene that may frame the future of cultural politics in America. It is a story of orality and literacy--their individual histories and their individual histories and their individual histories and their blended futures. Musician and poet John Sobol tells this tale interwined with stories about the blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll, the African-American struggle to find a language of revolutionary power, and the oral poet's impulse to transcend the printed page. Then Sobol reaches out to new media, rap, raves, and Napster to discuss the advantages that digital communication offers people of colour, as well as its potential dangers.