TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lomax,Alan
TI  - The land where blues began
SN  - 1565847393
U1  - 781.64309762 21
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - The New Press
KW  - Blues (Music)
N1  - Includes bibliography (p.509-514), discography, filmography and index
N2  - The author tells how the Mississippi Delta in the US was 'the land where blues began'. He explains the sociological and historical roots of the blues and the blues player, and also examines the contributions of several performing artists in the genre. Most of the many photographs of artists and ordinary black people of the Mississippi in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, are taken by the author
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