Learn more about juke joints and legendary bluesmen Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Buddy Guy The post 10 Blues ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

The crossroads at midnight: Hegemony in the music and culture of Delta blues This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The blues gave rise to the many forms of Afro-American ...

Delta blues music, a style born in the Mississippi Delta region, is central to Sinners‘ atmosphere and plot. Emerging from earlier traditions like work songs, field hollers, and spirituals ...

In particular, the film celebrates Delta blues, music made by Black artists “living under a back-breaking form of American apartheid,” and what Coogler describes as “our country’s most ...

“But after getting into the research of the project and learning the epic scale of the contribution of Delta Blues when it comes to global popular culture, how this music kinda launched pop ...