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From the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, William Ferris has written a book that is rich in conversation, reference, history and firsthand experience with...

A new history of the blues, from its beginnings in the Mississippi Delta to its global impact on today's music.  Gioia creates...

The Language of the Blues - now back in print! "One of the wittiest, bawdiest, most fascinating dictionaries ever." The Language of the Blues, by Debra Devi, explains more than 150 blues terms. From familiar words like "mojo" to more obscure...

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament.