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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Robert Johnson; Robert Johnson |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Gussow |
ISBN: | 9781469633657 1469633655 9781469633664 1469633663 |
OCLC Number: | 1179044325 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-387) and index |
Description: | 404 pages illustrations 25 cm |
Series Title: | New directions in southern studies |
Responsibility: | Adam Gussow |
Abstract:
In this groundbreaking study, Adam Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence in the blues. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure.
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