The land where the blues began /

The land where the blues began /

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The bluesmen were the bards of America's last frontier, the rowdy Mississippi Delta, in the days of the cotton boom, of levee and railroad building. Alan Lomax takes us on an adventure into the "bad old days" of the Delta. Weaving together the tales of muleskinners and roustabouts, ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, ©1993.
Edition:1st edition
Subjects:
Blues (Music) > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > History and criticism.
African Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Music > History and criticism.
African Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Social life and customs.
Afro-Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Social life and customs.
Afro-Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Music > History and criticism.
Noirs américains > Mississippi > Delta, Région du > Mœurs et coutumes.
24.65 popular and light music.
African Americans > Music
African Americans > Social life and customs
Blues (Music)
Manners and customs
Blues
Blues.
Zwarten.
Mississippi-Delta (Region)
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Social life and customs.
Delta, Région du (Mississ.) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Mississippi > Delta (Region)
African Americans > Music > History and criticism > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
African Americans > Social life and customs > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Blues (Music) > History and criticism > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Social life and customs
Music
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Music.
Musique.

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