Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

Ted Gioia

448 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative slow-paced

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The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia—the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically accl...

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