Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Gioia, Ted.

Title Delta blues : the life and times of the Mississippi Masters who revolutionized American music / Ted Gioia ; artwork by Neil Harpe.

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton, [2008]
©2008

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  781.643 GIO    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  781.643 GIOIA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  781.643 GIO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  781.643 GIOIA    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  781.643 GIO    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  781.643 GIOIA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  781.643 GIOIA    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  781.643 GIOIA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  781.643 GI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-416, 423-426) and index.
Summary The definitive account of how the rough sounds of the Mississippi Delta--from legendary greats Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others--changed the course of American popular music.
Contents The blues and the old kingdoms -- Where the southern cross the dog -- Dockery's plantation -- Parchman prison -- Hard time killin' floor -- Hellhound on my trail -- I'm a rolling stone -- Hooker's boogie -- Smokestack lightnin' -- Riding with the King -- The blues revival.
Subject Blues (Music) -- Mississippi -- History and criticism.
ISBN 9780393062588 hardcover
0393062589 hardcover
-->
Add a Review