Blues traveling : the holy sites of Delta blues / / Steve Cheseborough

• Autore: Cheseborough Steve
• Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2009
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.64309762
• Soggetto topico: Blues (Music) - History and criticism; Blues musicians - Homes and haunts; Musical landmarks - Mississippi; Musical landmarks - Tennessee - Memphis; Musical landmarks - Arkansas - Helena
• Soggetto geografico: Mississippi Guidebooks; Memphis (Tenn.) Guidebooks; Helena (Ark.) Guidebooks
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Looking for the Blues; Chapter 2: Memphis; Chapter 3: Down Highway 61; Chapter 4: The Clarksdale Area; Chapter 5: The Mid-Delta; Chapter 6: The Greenwood Area; Chapter 7: Greenville to Vicksburg; Chapter 8: The Jackson Area; Chapter 9: East Mississippi; Chapter 10: North Mississippi Hill Country; Recommended Reading; Recommended Listening; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide you to all the other hallowed grounds that nourished Mississippi's signature music. Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Memphis Minnie, Jimmie Rodgers, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, Little Milton, Elvis Presley, Bobby Rush, Junior Kimbrough, R. L. Burnsi
• Titolo autorizzato: Blues traveling
• ISBN: 1-282-48601-2; 9786612485787; 9786612486012; 1-60473-328-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823962203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II