Blues From The Delta - Softcover

Ferris, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306803275 ISBN 13: 9780306803277

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1988

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0306803275
• ISBN 13: 9780306803277
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250