Memphis Blues:: Birthplace of a Music Tradition by William Bearden

Memphis Blues:: Birthplace of a Music Tradition

William Bearden

128 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging dark reflective medium-paced
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The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, and since that fateful night in 1903 when W. C. Handy heard the mournful sound of a pocketknife sliding over the strings of an acoustic guitar and the plaintive song of a long-forgotten musician in the ...

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