Inmate/students practice blues harmonica during a classroom session of the Blues Tradition in American Literature course inside Parchman Prison in Mississippi. (John Burnett) Their crimes range from ...
The storied blues highway running from the Mississippi Delta to the North is not a one-way road, as Adam Gussow can attest. The storied blues highway running from the Mississippi Delta to the North is ...
HUNTINGTON — At 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, the Huntington Harmonica Club hosts a special harmonica workshop at Route 60 Music where the club welcomes in New York native harmonica expert, Adam Gussow, ...
Heaven and hell parties: Southern religion and the devil's music -- Sold it to the devil: the great migration, lost generations, and the perils of the urban dance hall -- I'm going to marry the ...
Starting the conversation -- Blues conditions -- Blues feelings and "real bluesmen" -- Blues expressiveness and the blues ethos -- W.C. Handy and the "birth" of the blues -- Langston Hughes and the ...
In 1940, a blues musician named Bukka White recorded "Parchman Farm Blues" about the infamous prison labor farm in the Mississippi Delta. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PARCHMAN FARM BLUES") WHITE: (Singing) ...
Their crimes range from drug possession to armed robbery to homicide. But inside this austere classroom, they're all college students. The course is The Blues Tradition in American Literature. They're ...
Their crimes range from drug possession to armed robbery to homicide. But inside this austere classroom, they're all college students. They're exploring how the themes of blues lyrics—bad luck and ...
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