The Voice of the Blues brings together interviews with many pioneering blues men including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and many others.
The Voice of the Delta: Charley Patton and the Mississippi Blues Traditions, Influences, and Comparisons : an International Symposium
The blues as Connor describes it is essentially a vehicle of transcendence, and it is this transcendence that we are ... The female voice is very much the voice of the blues, even though most of what you hear sounds like a male voice.
Hughes was convinced that he had upped his poet's game, purged his voice of voyeurship, hewed closer to “Negro folk- song forms,” and been more faithful to the life struggles of the black people he wrote about. But black reviewers were ...
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Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating characters and themes in fiction by US black writers.
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Mel Bay Presents Fred McDowell: The Voice of Mississippi Delta Blues Guitar
Ruby is so loud, she drives everyone crazy. When her teacher suggests that Ruby might make life easier by turning down the volume, Ruby turns it up instead - and drives away all her schoolfriends.
For over twenty years Sean Thomas Dougherty has negotiated between modernist and avant-garde writing and more populist traditions that extend back to Walt Whitman.