Explore the music of Mississippi blues guitarists such as Tommy McLennan. As a result, the Mississippi flood of 1927 was not just an environmental crisis but a racial event.Ĭhallenging long-standing ideas of African American environmental complacency, Mizelle offers insights into the broader dynamics of human interactions with nature as well as ways in which nature is mediated through the social and political dynamics of race. Travel back to the early blues years of Mississippi with this multi-award. According to Mizelle, musicians, Harlem Renaissance artists, fraternal organizations, and Creole migrants all shared a sense of vulnerability in the face of both the Mississippi River and a white supremacist society. Backwater Blues reveals larger relationships between social and environmental history.
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history, with more than fifty songs evoking the disruptive force of the flood and the precariousness of the levees originally constructed to protect citizens. The Early Masters of American Blues series provides the unique opportunity to. Mizelle notes that the devastation produced the richest groundswell of blues recordings following any environmental catastrophe in U.S. The book’s title comes from Bessie Smith’s “Backwater Blues,” perhaps the best-known song about the flood. In Backwater Blues, Mizelle analyzes the disaster through the lenses of race and charity, blues music, and mobility and labor. examines the place of the flood within African American cultural memory and the profound ways it influenced migration patterns in the United States. Music of Mississippi Mississippi is best known as the home of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S.
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