Item details: Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues - 46047574

Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues

text Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues

Ferris, William

Summary: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues... Read more

Contents: Blues roots -- Blues towns and cities -- Looking back -- Sacred and secular worlds.

Format: text

Description: xiv, 302 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.) + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.).

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press 2009

Library	Location	Status
Woodmere (Main Branch)	781.643 FER in Adult Non-fiction	Reshelving

Library	Location	Status
TADL-WOOD	781.643 FER in Adult Non-fiction	Reshelving

bibliography biography

Blues musicians Mississippi Interviews Blues (Music) Mississippi History and criticism African Americans Mississippi Music History and criticism

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series

Ferris, William Ferris, William R.

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