Description |
xiv, 302 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.) + 1 videodisc (DVD 4 3/4 in.). |
Series |
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series |
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H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Note |
"This book was published with the assistance of the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--T.p. verso. |
Event |
CD contents recorded 1963-1974. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-269), discography (pages 269-284), filmography (pages 284-289) and index. |
Contents |
Blues roots. Rose Hill : Mary Gordon ; Reverend Isaac Thomas -- Lake Mary : Martha Dunbar ; Scott Dunbar -- Lorman : Louis Dotson -- Centreville : Fannie Bell Chapman -- Gravel Springs : Otha Turner -- Parchman Penitentiary : Johnny Lee "Have Mercy" Thomas ; Camp B work chant ; James "Blood" Shelby ; Ben Gooch ; Sergeant Webb ; Roosevelt Stewart, Jr. -- Tutwiler : Tom Dumas ; Lee Kizart -- A delta road in Coahoma County : C.L. Redwine ; Corine Gardner -- Blues towns and cities. Leland : James "Son Ford" Thomas ; Gussie Tobe ; Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown -- Clarksdale : Jasper Love ; Wade Walton -- WOKJ, Jackson : Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis : The Big Daddy Show ; Bruce Payne, news ; Reverend Marcus Butler : gospel music ; Gary's Meat House ad ; Bruce Payne -- Beale Street : Robert Shaw -- Looking back : Willie Dixon ; B.B. King -- Sacred and secular worlds. Rose Hill Church : Rose Hill Church service ; Clarksdale : house party. |
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CD contents. Why B.B. King sings the blues (Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis) (:35) -- Going down to the station (Sonny Boy Williams) (3:09) -- Going away blues (Lovey Williams) (2:38) -- So glad to be here (3:58) ; He's my rock, my sword, my shield (3:46) (The Chapman Family) -- Lazarus (inmates at Camp B, Parchman Penitentiary) (2:46) -- Hidden violence (anonymous) (1:02) -- Oh Rosie (inmates at Camp B, Parchman Penitentiary) (2:58) -- There are days (Southland Hummingbirds) (2:57) -- You shall be free (Mary Gordon) (1:26) -- You can't carry blues and go to church (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (:53) -- I got the world in a jug and the stopper in my hand (Lee Kizart) (2:35) -- It gives me ease (Jasper Love) (1:05) -- Highway 61 blues (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (2:51) -- It's so cold up north (Scott Dunbar) (3:41) -- Blues is round you every day (Arthur Lee Williams) (:34) -- Mystery train (train I ride) (Lovey Williams) (2:21) -- Somebody knocking on my door (Napoleon Strickland) (2:16) -- Jaybird (Scott Dunbar) (8:51) -- Boogie chillun (Lovey Williams) (1:49) -- One drop (Isaac Thomas) (2:20) -- Cairo blues (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (4:28). |
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DVD contents. Black Delta. Pt. 1-2 -- Parchman Penitentiary -- Give my poor heart ease : Mississippi Delta bluesmen -- I ain't lyin' : folktales from Mississippi -- Made in Mississippi : Black folk art and crafts -- Two Black churches. |
Subject |
Blues musicians -- Mississippi -- Interviews.
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Blues (Music) -- Mississippi -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Mississippi -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Blues (Music) -- 1961-1970.
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Blues (Music) -- 1971-1980.
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Added Author |
Ferris, William R.
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Louis, Joe, 1914-1981 (Poppa Rock)
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Williams, Sonny Boy.
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Williams, Lovey.
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Gordon, Mary (Monk)
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Thomas, Son, 1926-1993.
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Kizart, Lee, 1902-
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Love, Jasper.
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Dunbar, Scott.
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Williams, Arthur Lee.
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Strickland, Napoleon.
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Thomas, Isaac, singer.
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Chapman Family (Musical group)
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Southland Hummingbirds (Musical group)
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Added Title |
Black Delta (Motion picture)
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Parchman Penitentiary (Motion picture)
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Give my poor heart ease (Motion picture)
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I ain't lyin' (Motion picture)
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Made in Mississippi (Motion picture)
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Two Black churches (Motion picture)
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ISBN |
9780807833254 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807833258 cloth alkaline paper |
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