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100 1 a| Nicholson, Robert.=| ^A352087;

245 10 a| Mississippi :b| the blues today! /c| Robert Nicholson ; photographs by Logan Young.;

246 3 a| Blues today;

260 a| New York :b| Da Capo Press,c| 1999.;

300 a| 192 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Originally published: London : Blandford, 1998.;

504 a| Includes discography (pages 185-187), bibliographical references (pages 188-189), and index.;

505 00 g| Introduction:t| 'The weirdest music I had ever heard' --g| Ch. 1.t| Mavericks and minstrels: a brief historical background --g| Ch. 2.t| Diddley-bow to dinner suit: Lonnie Pitchford --g| Ch. 3.t| This ain't no Beale Street: Booba Barnes --g| Ch. 4.t| Hog's-Head blues in Bentonia: Jack Owens and Bentonia Blues --g| Ch. 5.t| Don't call me no nigger: Scott Dunbar and Son Thomas --g| Ch. 6.t| Breaking down the walls: the Memphis blues scene --g| Ch. 7.t| Blues at Murphy's Bar: Robert 'The Wolfman' Belfour --g| Ch. 8.t| Drums is a calling thing: the fife and drum bands of Mississippi --g| Ch. 9.t| Still the Delta Queen: Jessie Mae, Last of the Hemphills --g| Ch. 10.t| The fishing musician: Big Jack Johnson --g| Ch. 11.t| I love the life I live and I live the life I love: Willie Foster.;

520 a| The blues, that unique form of African-American music, continues to hold a fascination with each successive generation of young people. Together with Memphis-based photographer Logan Young, the author has conducted a series of extended field trips to the south. Their travels have brought them into contact with the blues musicians of today. This book presents in words and images a behind-the-scenes, often intimate, portrait of the main players on the current Delta Blues scene, including Lonnie Pitchford, Booba Barnes, Scott Dunbar, Son Thomas, and others. This important book gives a vivid account of an economically impoverished people and examines the often brittle conviviality, hidden racial tensions, and undercurrents of violence from which the blues has grown and in which it continues to thrive. The stunning, original photographs by Logan Young enhance the author's informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking text. Together they present a unique sociological and musical picture of the Mississippi Blues, and of the ways it has endured and evolved in contemporary America.;

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Mississippi : the blues today! / Robert Nicholson ; photographs by Logan Young.

Author/creator	Nicholson, Robert
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Da Capo Press, 1999.
Description	192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Blues (Music)--Mississippi. --History and criticism. Blues musicians--Mississippi.

Variant title	Blues today
Contents	Introduction: 'The weirdest music I had ever heard' -- Ch. 1. Mavericks and minstrels: a brief historical background -- Ch. 2. Diddley-bow to dinner suit: Lonnie Pitchford -- Ch. 3. This ain't no Beale Street: Booba Barnes -- Ch. 4. Hog's-Head blues in Bentonia: Jack Owens and Bentonia Blues -- Ch. 5. Don't call me no nigger: Scott Dunbar and Son Thomas -- Ch. 6. Breaking down the walls: the Memphis blues scene -- Ch. 7. Blues at Murphy's Bar: Robert 'The Wolfman' Belfour -- Ch. 8. Drums is a calling thing: the fife and drum bands of Mississippi -- Ch. 9. Still the Delta Queen: Jessie Mae, Last of the Hemphills -- Ch. 10. The fishing musician: Big Jack Johnson -- Ch. 11. I love the life I live and I live the life I love: Willie Foster.
Abstract	The blues, that unique form of African-American music, continues to hold a fascination with each successive generation of young people. Together with Memphis-based photographer Logan Young, the author has conducted a series of extended field trips to the south. Their travels have brought them into contact with the blues musicians of today. This book presents in words and images a behind-the-scenes, often intimate, portrait of the main players on the current Delta Blues scene, including Lonnie Pitchford, Booba Barnes, Scott Dunbar, Son Thomas, and others. This important book gives a vivid account of an economically impoverished people and examines the often brittle conviviality, hidden racial tensions, and undercurrents of violence from which the blues has grown and in which it continues to thrive. The stunning, original photographs by Logan Young enhance the author's informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking text. Together they present a unique sociological and musical picture of the Mississippi Blues, and of the ways it has endured and evolved in contemporary America.
Local note	Little-311355--305131014162R
General note	Originally published: London : Blandford, 1998.
Bibliography note	Includes discography (pages 185-187), bibliographical references (pages 188-189), and index.
LCCN	98040012
ISBN	0306808838 (alk. paper)

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