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I'm feeling the blues right now [electronic resource] : blues tourism and the Mississippi Delta / Stephen A. King.

By: King, Stephen A, 1964-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: American made music series. Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011Description: xviii, 277 p., [20] p. of plates : ill.Subject(s): Blues (Music) -- Social aspects | Blues (Music) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History and criticism | Music and tourism -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.4/84243097624 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The history of the Mississippi Delta blues -- The history of blues tourism in the Mississippi Delta -- Blues myths and the rhetorical imagination of place -- Blues festivals, race, and the construction of authenticity -- A blues countermemory : the history of Mississippi, the story of the Delta -- Public memory, historical amnesia, and the Shack Up Inn -- Assessing tourism goals : money, image, and reconciliation.
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306.4/84243097624 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliography (p. 239-267), discography (p. 268-270) and index.

The history of the Mississippi Delta blues -- The history of blues tourism in the Mississippi Delta -- Blues myths and the rhetorical imagination of place -- Blues festivals, race, and the construction of authenticity -- A blues countermemory : the history of Mississippi, the story of the Delta -- Public memory, historical amnesia, and the Shack Up Inn -- Assessing tourism goals : money, image, and reconciliation.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.