Item #27185 Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music. Blues Music, Ted Gioia.

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music.

New York: Norton, 2008. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight, copy with a previous owner inscription in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Ted Gioia examines the more than one hundred years of the music born in the Mississippi delta region of the American south through extensive personal fieldwork, archival research, interviews with musicians and first-person accounts. Gioia traces the influence blues music had on the popular music of today by sketching its African roots to the first classic recordings of the 1920s and 30s. Item #27185

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