Blues from the Delta

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ISBN: 9780306803277 | 0306803275
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/22/1988

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William Ferris has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and first-hand experience with blues musicians and the culture that informs the music. The poetry, games, house parties, religious and secular traditions of black life in the Delta are explored in living prose that is also a work of immense scholarship. Book jacket.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Blues Roots	p. 1
Entering the Delta	p. 3
The Blues Family	p. 11
The Blues Perspective	p. 25
Early Sounds	p. 31
Learning the Blues	p. 37
Talking the Blues	p. 41
Blues Generations	p. 45
Records	p. 51
Blues Composition	p. 55
Make Ups	p. 61
Verses	p. 67
Blues Proverbs	p. 73
Blues Conjuration	p. 77
Bluesmen and Preachers	p. 79
Black and White Music	p. 91
The White Audience	p. 95
Blues House Party	p. 99
Blues Talk	p. 107
The House Party	p. 115
Letters	p. 157
Notes	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 195
Discography	p. 205
Filmography	p. 221
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