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The land where the blues began
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- Creator
- Alan Lomax
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Delta, 1995
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xix, 539 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780385312851, 0385312857
- OCLC
- ocm31794398
- Discography: pages 515-518.
- Filmography: pages 519-522.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-514) and index.
- ch. 1. My heart struck sorrow -- ch. 2. There is a hell -- ch. 3. The ugliest and the fastest man -- ch. 4. Lonesome whistles -- ch. 5. The levee -- ch. 6. Rise up, dead man -- ch. 7. The hills -- ch. 8. Bluesmen -- ch. 9. Big Bill of the blues -- ch. 10. Blues in the Mississippi night