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Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues /

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ferris, William R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Colección:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Blues roots. Rose Hill : Mary Gordon ; Reverend Isaac Thomas
  • Lake Mary : Martha Dunbar ; Scott Dunbar
  • Lorman : Louis Dotson
  • Centreville : Fannie Bell Chapman
  • Gravel Springs : Otha Turner
  • Parchman Penitentiary : Johnny Lee "Have Mercy" Thomas ; Camp B work chant ; James "Blood" Shelby ; Ben Gooch ; Sergeant Webb ; Roosevelt Stewart, Jr.
  • Tutwiler : Tom Dumas ; Lee Kizart
  • A delta road in Coahoma County : C.L. Redwine ; Corine Gardner
  • Blues towns and cities. Leland : James "Son Ford" Thomas ; Gussie Tobe ; Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown
  • Clarksdale : Jasper Love ; Wade Walton
  • WOKJ, Jackson : Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis : The Big Daddy Show ; Bruce Payne, news ; Reverend Marcus Butler : gospel music ; Gary's Meat House ad ; Bruce Payne
  • Beale Street : Robert Shaw
  • Looking back : Willie Dixon ; B.B. King
  • Sacred and secular worlds. Rose Hill Church : Rose Hill Church service ; Clarksdale : house party.