In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the blues,
historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know
it is largely a myth. Following the trail of characters like Howard
Odum, who combed Mississippi's back roads with a cylinder
phonograph to record vagrants, John and Alan Lomax, who prowled
Southern penitentiaries and unearthed the rough, melancholy vocals
of Leadbelly, and James McKune, a recluse whose record collection
came to define the primal sounds of the Delta blues, Hamilton
reveals this musical form to be the culmination of a longstanding
white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music.
By excavating the history of the Delta blues, Hamilton reveals
the extent to which American culture has been shaped by white
fantasies of racial difference.
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