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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780878058464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this spectacular album of full-color photographs Birney Imes reveals a previously unexplored domain: the black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta. Imes transforms this phenomenon of Delta cultural life into something rich and strange. Introduced by Richard Ford.
Author: Will Jacks
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1496825357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po’ Monkey’s, perhaps the most famous house in Mississippi and the last rural juke joint in the state, now closed to the public. Before the death of the lounge’s owner, Willie Seaberry, in 2016, it was a mandatory stop on the constant blues pilgrimage that flows through the Delta. Seaberry ran Po’ Monkey’s Lounge for more than fifty years, opening his juke joint in the 1960s. A hand-built tenant home located on the plantation where Seaberry worked, Po’ Monkey’s was a place to listen to music and drink beer—a place to relax where everyone was welcomed by Seaberry’s infectious charm. In Po’ Monkey’s: Portrait of a Juke Joint, photographer Will Jacks captures the juke joint he spent a decade patronizing. The more than seventy black-and-white photographs featured in this volume reflect ten years of weekly visits to the lounge as a regular—a journal of Jacks’s encounters with other customers, tourists, and Willie Seaberry himself. An essay by award-winning writer Boyce Upholt on the cultural significance of the lounge accompanies the images. This volume explores the difficulties of preservation, historical context, community relations, and cultural tourism. Now that Seaberry is gone, the uncertainty of the future of his juke joint highlights the need for a historical record.
Author: Janice Branch Tracy
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1625849699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the swamps and juke joints of Holmes County, Mississippi, Edward Tillman Branch built his empire. Tillman's clubs were legendary. Moonshine flowed as patrons enjoyed craps games and well-known blues acts. Across from his Goodman establishment, prostitutes in a trysting trailer entertained men, including the married Tillman himself. A threat to law enforcement and anyone who crossed his path, Branch rose from modest beginnings to become the ruler of a treacherous kingdom in the hills that became his own end. Author Janice Branch Tracy reveals the man behind the story and the path that led him to become what Honeyboy Edwards referred to in his autobiography as the "baddest white man in Mississippi."
Author: Larry McCoy Raven
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Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781388917081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJuke joints in the state of Mississippi used to be as plentiful as cotton fields and dirt roads.Unfortunately, they are being torn down at an alarming rate and we have scoured the state to photograph and sharer some information about the ones that we were able to find.
Author: Danni Rose
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9781388389369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFounder of Stovetopkisses, Danni Rose became an internet sensation after sharing favorite childhood memories and recipes synonymous with her fathers southern juke joint. Haywood's Place, Juke Joint Comfort Food will take foodies and their tastebuds on a flavorful, memorable and affordable experience throughout the southern belt of cooking! The book is filled with 50 plus mind blowing recipes using things you can find in your pantry. Like Danni Rose, her recipes are electric, unexpected, and packed with pop!
Author: Richard Grant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1476709645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home.
Author: Roger Stolle
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1467141577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat's the real meaning of juke joint? Explore these special places for a special brand of the blues. Juke joint - two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the murky surface to tell the tales, canonize the characters and explain the special brand of blues bottled in these quasi-legal establishments. Author Roger Stolle works from the inside to educate and entertain with a mix of history, anecdote and discovery. It's a wild ride.
Author: C. W. Thayer
Publisher:
Published: 2018-09
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780692156377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA graphic novel series chronicling the evolution of American music and culture from the 1930's to present.
Author: Chanda Feldman
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 0807168300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this debut collection, Chanda Feldman's stunning poems unveil her childhood as well as that of her parents. Memories of desegregation, the days after the assassination of Dr. King, and what life was like for sharecroppers-- including the weddings, family feasts, and hardscrabble conditions that composed their lives-- unfold in this beautiful collection. Both timely and timeless, Feldmen presents a thoughtful and resonating first book.
Author: Adam Gussow
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1469633671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.
