King of the delta blues : the life and music of Charlie Patton / by Wardlow, Gayle, Komara, Edward M., 1966-, Calt, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…The Greening of the Delta Blues (circa 1906 -- 1910) --…”
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Blues traveling : the holy sites of Delta blues / by Cheseborough, Steve

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Blues Musicians of the Mississippi Delta by Manheim, Steven

Table of Contents: “…The Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Blues Musicians; 2. Blues Musicians of the Delta and Mississippi; 3. …”
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In search of the blues by Hamilton, Marybeth

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I'm feeling the blues right now : blues tourism and the Mississippi Delta by King, Stephen A., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The history of the Mississippi Delta blues -- The history of blues tourism in the Mississippi Delta -- Blues myths and the rhetorical imagination of place -- Blues festivals, race, and the construction of authenticity -- A blues countermemory : the history of Mississippi, the story of the Delta -- Public memory, historical amnesia, and the Shack Up Inn -- Assessing tourism goals : money, image, and reconciliation.…”
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Eco-critical literature : regreening African landscapes

Table of Contents: “…'Ebinyo Ogbowei -- Poetics of Environmental Degradation in Tanure Ojaide's Delta Blues -- For Common Corn : Eco-ing Bole Butake's Concerns in Lake God, The Survivors, and And Palm-Wine Will Flow -- Destabilizing the Images of the African Forest As a Conceptual Space for Renegotiating African Identities during the Zimbabwe Armed Liberation Struggle in the Film Flame (1996).…”
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Mississippi, off the beaten path : a guide to unique places by Kirkpatrick, Marlo Carter

Table of Contents: “…About the Author; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; The Northeastern Hills; The I-55 Corridor; The Central Crests; The Appalachian Foothills; Rivers and Rails; The Natchez Trace Parkway; The Eastern Plains; The Golden Triangle; The Natchez Trace Parkway; Reservations and Rails; The Mississippi River Delta; Blues Alley; Cotton Row; Catfish Corridor; The Heartland; The Jackson Metro Area; Farmland and Festivals; The River Cities; The Natchez Trace Parkway; Southern Mississippi and the Gulf Coast; The Old Southwest; The Piney Woods; The Mississippi Beach; Index.…”
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Love in Vain : a Vision of Robert Johnson. by Greenberg, Alan

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The poetry of pop by Bradley, Adam

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The birth (and death) of the cool by Gioia, Ted

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Preachin' the blues : the life and times of Son House by Beaumont, Daniel E.

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How Britain got the blues : the transmission and reception of American blues style in the United Kingdom by Schwartz, Roberta Freund

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Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- From Bumble Bee Slim to Black Boy Shine: nicknames of blues singers / David Evans -- Preachin' the blues: a textual linguistic analysis of Son House's "Dry spell blues" / Luigi Monge -- Some ramblings on Robert Johnson's mind: critical analysis and aesthetic value in Delta blues / James Bennighof -- "Guess these people wonder what I'm singing": quotation and reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. …”
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Delta fragments : the recollections of a sharecropper's son by Hodges, John Oliver, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The Delta ; The Wilsons ; The Hodgeses ; My Mother ; My Sister ; My Stepfather ; Whittington Plantation ; Settlement Time ; One-Room Schoolhouse ; G Street Boys ; Schoolmates ; My Teachers ; Going to the 'House -- Reflecting. Delta Blues ; Gambling on the River ; Black Ways and Other Folkways ; African Gods in Mississippi ; A Delta Revival ; The Black Church ; The Black Preacher ; The Folk Sermon ; Is God Good? …”
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Soul of the man : Bobby "Blue" Bland by Farley, Charles, 1945-

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Outlaw style : poems by Smith, R. T.

Table of Contents: “…Charm: Anna Surratt Tonry, 1900One-Man Show; Blood Harmony; Plantation of the Mad; Mandolin; The Carter Scratch; Strange Fruit, 1939; Johnny Shines' Last Edict on the Taproot of Delta Blues; Hohner; The Sacred Sound of the Dove; Gypsy Fiddle; Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow; Summertime; Note.…”
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Between Hours : a Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts. by Akhtar, Salman

Table of Contents: “…Explaining StarsVengeance; A Little Company; Spider; Diurne the Goddess; ETOH; Green Lake; ALICE JONES; Sex; Circus; Pool; Fish; Mystery; Open; Dream; Insight; Commute; EUGENE MAHON; Legacy; Paranoia; Dream; Self Portrait; Clockwork; Cloak and Dagger; Luciano; Suicide; Oedipus; REBECCA MEREDITH; The Widows; Intergenerational Delta Blues; Survived by His Longtime Companion; Goose and the Ladies; @ The Airfield: The Marymoor Radio Controlled Flight Club; Said; In a High Window; When Old, Old Women Up and Get the Blues; ARLENE KRAMER RICHARDS; Tell Me; Retired; Sorry; Post Office; Deer Isle.…”
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Before Elvis : the prehistory of rock 'n' roll by Birnbaum, Larry

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American epic. Episode 2, Blood and soil

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Heaven was Detroit : from jazz to hip-hop and beyond

Table of Contents: “…Detroit Blues; Alberta, Alberta: The Alberta Adams Story; John Lee Hooker and Joe Von Battle: No Magic, Just Men; Searching for the Son: Delta Blues Legend Son House in Detroit.…”
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Mystery train by Wojahn, David, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…John Berryman Listening to Robert Johnson's "King of the Delta Blues," January 1972 -- 21. Turbulence: "Exile on Main Street" Tour, 1972 -- 22. …”
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