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William Ferris, director of the centre for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and firsthand experience with blues musicians and the culture that informs the music. The poetry, games, house parties, religious and secular traditions of black life in the Delta are explored in living prose that is also a work of immense scholarship.
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William Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the centre for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris coedited the encyclopaedia of Southern Culture and is the author of Blues from the Delta. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine named him among the top ten professors in the United States.
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- PublisherDa Capo Press Inc
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0306762153
- ISBN 13 9780306762154
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages226
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