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Tag Archives: The Blues
The Road to Jim Crow, 1875-1900, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 10)
[Note: In the previous post in this series, we looked at the short-term consequences of the acceptance, by white southerners and many northerners, of the so-called “New South Creed,” which offered a prettified picture of the “Old South” and a … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Historical Reflection, History, Research, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, education, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Prep school teaching, Southern History, Teaching History, The Blues, The Great Migration, WP Longform
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The Road to Jim Crow, 1875-1900, Part 1 (Teaching Civil Rights, 10)
[NOTE: As we saw in the previous post in this series, a key element in the eventual acceptance of the defeated South back into the Union on a (more or less) equal basis with the rest of the nation was … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, education, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History, The Blues, The Great Migration, WP Longform
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Howlin’ Wolf,1910-1976: His Life, His Times, His Blues (Blues Stories, 28)
A Review of James Segrest and Mark Hoffman, Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. Howlin’ Wolf was born Chester Arthur Burnett, June 10, 1910, near West Point, Mississippi. (His grandfather nicknamed … Continue reading
Posted in "Charley Patton", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Chicago Blues, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Popular Culture, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Son House, Southern History, The "Great Migration", The Blues, Uncategorized, Urban Blues, WP Long Form
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, Blues, Blues Revival of the 1960s, Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Howlin' Wolf biography, James Segrest and Mark Hoffman, Robert Johnson, Southern History, The Blues, The Great Migration, WP Longform
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Willie “61” Blackwell, A Blues Performer Without a Wikipedia Entry, 1905-c.1972 (Blues Stories, 23)
[NOTE: I suppose “obscurity” is a relative concept. Before the modern era, one would actually have had to “research” a person in various “hard copy” sources, before lamenting his or her “obscurity.” In more recent years, however, with the Internet in general, … Continue reading
Early Blues–Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Everything (Blues Stories, 17)
A Review of R.A. Lawson, Jim Crow’s Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. [NOTE: As I’ve explained elsewhere, my initial interest in the Blues developed because my older son and I were … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, Alan Lomax, American History, Big Bill Broonzy, Chicago Blues, Civil Rights Movement, Delta Blues, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History of Rock and Roll, Interdisciplinary Work, Leadbelly, Popular Culture, Robert Johnson, Southern History, Teaching, The Blues, Uncategorized, Urban Blues
Tagged Big Bill Broonzy, Blues Music as "Countercultural, Great Depression, Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927, Leadbelly, Modern Civil Rights Movement, Peetie Wheatstraw, Robert Johnson, The Blues, The Great Migration
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The Chitlin’ Circuit: Life, Death, and a Musical Revolution (Blues Stories, 14)
A Review of Preston Lauterbach, The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. [NOTE: As Blues fans know, the “chitlin’ circuit” kept the Blues alive after World War II … Continue reading
The Voice of the Urban Blues–Bobby “Blue” Bland,1930-2013 (Blues Stories, 13)
A Review of Charles Farley, Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. Throughout his long career, Bobby Bland was introduced as “the world’s greatest blues singer,” and, according to biographer Charles Farley, this was … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Civil Rights Movement, Delta Blues, History, Research, Retirement, Southern History, The Blues, Uncategorized, Urban Blues
Tagged American History and Culture, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Southern History, The Blues, Urban Blues, WP Longform
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B.B. King, “King of the Blues” (Blues Stories, 12)
[NOTE: There is a generic career arc for many twentieth-century Blues performers: a poverty-stricken background in the Jim Crow South, especially the Mississippi Delta; “escape” to the “land of opportunity” somewhere in the North or Midwest; early career success, followed … Continue reading
Posted in American History, B.B. King, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Delta Blues, Historical Reflection, History, Interdisciplinary Work, John Lee Hooker, Research, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, The Blues, Urban Blues
Tagged B.B. King, Biography, Chitlin' Circuit, Memphis Blues, The Blues, WP Longform
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