Bluesman, Guitar, And Migration

This project examines how the bluesman, guitar, and migration have interacted with each other and brought about transformations to American popular music, based upon scholarly works, magazine articles, and the sound recordings of the prewar blues performers. In popular theory, the blues sprang out of the cotton fields and articulated the life experiences of the oppressed people in isolated areas, particularly the Jim Crow south. These are certainly truths of the blues. Also true is that the blues was a product of modernization in every way and a representation of the African American bluesman's aspiring life. The bluesman's mobile lifestyle was one way of his response to the changes of society. Chapters one and two investigate the instruments of African American people past and present and closely look at the pathway of the guitar to become a bluesman's choice of instrument. Chapter three focuses on the bluesmanship of the bluesman and meaning of the guitar for him. Chapter four discusses the bluesmen's move in contrast with comAfrican Americans’ migration.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. in Southern Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Southern Studies

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Takada, Yaeko

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ted Ownby
• Adam Gussow
• Kathryn McKee

• Blues
• Bluesman
• Hobo
• Migration
• Railroad
• Music

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1160

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2159