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Blues from the Delta - by William Ferris (Paperback)

Blues from the Delta - by  William Ferris (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"William Ferris, director of the Center 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 firsth"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>William Ferris, director of the Center 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>William Ferris </b>is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center 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 <i>Encyclopedia of Southern Culture</i> and is the author of <i>Blues from the Delta</i>. In 1991, <i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine named him among the top ten professors in the United States.<b><br></b>

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