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Blues Traveling
Updated and expanded, this indispensable guidebook maps out the blues birthplaces, juke joints and crossroads of the Mississippi Delta.
Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers & the Blues Life
What's the real meaning of juke joint? Explore these special places for a special brand of the blues. Juke joint - two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the murky surface to tell the tales, canonize the characters and explain the special brand of blues bottled in these quasi-legal establishments. Author Roger Stolle works from the inside to educate and entertain with a mix of history, anecdote and discovery. It's a wild ride.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume con...
The Carriage Journal
The Robert Carter Traveling Coach By Ken Wheeling 63 Driving Hints: the Driver's Seat By Tom Ryder 64 The Art of Cecil Aldin By Joe Jvloran 70 History & Romance of the Arrow Road Coach By Barbara Lindauer 74 The 2006 CAA. Learning Weekend By Ken Wheeling 77 Equine Massage By Lisa Keer Carusone 88 CA.A Carriage Showcase By Vicki Nelson Bodah The View from the Box, by Dale DeHaan 66 How I Got Hooked, by Bob Mischke 67 Memories , , , Mostly Horsy, by Tom Ryder 80 The World on Wheels, by Tom Ryder 82 The Road Behind • The Brewsters 89 From the CMA Library• Coupling Reins 90 Book Reviews 92 CAA Bookstore 94 Directory of Advertisers
Encyclopedia of the Blues
This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.
Jim Crow Wisdom
Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940
The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me
An enormously talented young writer has crafted a pitch-perfect, cinematic first novel rich with unforgettable characters, mesmerizing prose, and smoldering sexual tension. With a fresh and vivid rendering of timeless themes, this novel captures the exhilaration of first love and the consequences of rebellion in a place resistant to change.
Mississippi John Hurt
Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues. At seventy-one he moved to Washington, D.C., from Avalon, Mississippi, and became a live-wire connection to a powerful, authentic past. His intricate and lively style made him the most sought after musician among the many talents the revival brought to light. Mississippi John Hurt provides this legendary creator's life story for the first time. Biographer Philip Ratcliffe traces Hurt's roots to ...
