Explores the social and cultural background of the blues, including interviews and performances throughout the Mississippi Delta. Includes work songs of the muleskinners in the levee camps, of river roustabouts, of sharecroppers, of churchgoers, and the toasts told in the barrooms.
Bibliographic Details
| Corporate Authors: |
Mississippi Authority for Public Television,
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),
Media Generation (Firm) |
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| Other Authors: |
Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002,
Bishop, John Melville,
Long, Worth W.,
Pitchford, Lonnie,
Strickland, Napoleon,
Owens, Jack,
Maxwell, Clyde,
Smith, Lucius,
Spires, Bud,
Maxwell, Beatrice,
Brown, Walter, -1982,
Nelson, Sonny Boy, 1909-1998,
Chatmon, Sam,
Johnson, George,
Tucker, J. T.,
Savage, Joe,
Hart, William S. (William Surrey), 1864-1946,
Gordon, Bill,
Sutherland, Belton,
Smith, Caesar,
Hall, James (Blues vocalist),
Turner, Othar,
Puckett, Wilbert,
Brooks, Johnny |
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| Format: | Video
DVD
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| Language: | English |
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| Language Notes: | Optional English subtitles. |
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| Published: |
[West Hills, Calif.] :
Media-Generation,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 30th anniversary ed. |
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| Subjects: | |
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