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Blind musicians have shaped the sound of modern music across blues, jazz, soul, gospel, and classical traditions. Their work has been celebrated, archived, and endlessly replayed. Yet the economic systems surrounding that sound have rarely been examined with equal seriousness. Blind Genius is not a collection of inspirational biographies. It is an institutional and economic analysis of how musical brilliance functions inside industries not designed to protect blind artists. Through historically grounded case studies—including Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Art Tatum, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Clarence Carter, José Feliciano, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Andrea Bocelli, and the Blind Boys of Alabama—this book traces how blindness intersects with ownership, contracts, intermediaries, and institutional power. It examines why admiration so often substitutes for protection, why endurance is mistaken for success, and why sound can generate wealth long after the musicians who created it remain economically exposed. Rather than framing blindness as tragedy or triumph, Blind Genius treats it as an analytic lens. It reveals how access, verification, and control shape outcomes in the music business—and how disability makes structural inequalities impossible to ignore. Covering more than a century of recorded music history, this book moves across genres and markets to show a consistent pattern: Written for adult nonfiction readers, Blind Genius offers a clear-eyed examination of the business of sound beneath myth, biography, and nostalgia. This is not a tribute.
genius is celebrated, institutions retain control, and ownership determines who ultimately benefits.
It is an accounting.
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