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This book examines how "Trout Mask Replica," an album that divided (rather than) united a pop audience, is informed by a variety of diverse sources. "Trout Mask Replica" is a hybrid of poetic declarations inspired by both Walt Whitman and the beat poets, the field hollers of the Delta Blues, the urban blues of Howlin' Wolf, the gospel blues of Blind Willie Johnson, and the free jazz of Ornette Coleman. This book illustrates how "Trout Mask Replica" was not so much an arcane specimen of the avant-garde, but rather a defiantly original declaration of the American imagination.