Inside Poor Monkey's
Luther Brown, Delta State University
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Recommended Resources:
Print Materials
Cheseborough, Steve. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
Dellinger, Matt. "Mississippi: The State of The Blues." Oxford American, Summer Music Issue, 2001.
Knight, Richard. The Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2003.
Nardone, Jennifer. "'I Can Sit Right Here, Thinks a Thousand Miles Away' Revealing the Blues in the Space of Jukejoints". Mississippi Folklife, 31 (1999), 20-29.
Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues: The Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta. New York: Penguin Books, 1981.
Pearson, Barry Lee. "Jook Women." Arkansas Review, 34(1), 18-29.
“Slip Inside the Deep South." Esquire magazine, Japan, 18 (November 2004).
Wang, Ning. "Rethinking Authenticity in the Tourism Experience." Annals of Tourism Research, 26 (1999), 349-370.
Films
Bishop, John M., Alan Lomax and Worth W. Long. The Land Where the Blues Began (The Mississippi Authority for Eduational Television & Alan Lomax, 1979)
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,109
Ferris, Bill. Give My Poor Heart Ease: Mississippi Delta Bluesmen (Yale University Media Design Studio with the Center for Southern Folklore, 1975)
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,80
Links
The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/
Downs, Tom. "On the Road- Top Five Juke Joints." Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/journeys/blues/3.htm
Johnson, Jeff. The Signposts of a Style: Mapping Out the Blues. Chicago Sun-Times. April 4, 2004.
http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/blues/sho-sunday-blues04a.html
Kelly, Leslie. Delta Food and Blues Blog. Memphis Commercial Appeal. February 27, 2004.
http://blogs.commercialappeal.com/deltablues/archives/on_the_road/
Komara, Edward (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Blues. New York: Routledge, 2005.
http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/blues/index.html
Mississippi Delta Blues Road Trip
http://www.pbs.org/theblues/roadtrip/deltahist.html
Mississippi Delta Blues Website
http://www.mississippideltabluesinfo.com/
Mississippi: The State of the Blues from The Oxford American
http://mattdellinger.com/articles/stateblues.html
Peruzzi, Brett. Delta Bound: A Traveler's Guide to the Land Where Blues Began
http://www.lostneighborhoods.com/delta/deltabound.htm
Rankin, Tom. “Cane Brakes, High Water, Drought: The Mississippi Delta.” Festival of American Folklife Program Book, 1997.
http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/Festival1997/cane.htm
Sweets, Ellen. "Down in the Delta." DenverPost.com, May 14, 2006.
http://denverpost.com/travel/ci_3803695
Trail of the Hellhound: Delta Blues in the Lower Missisisppi Valley
http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/blues/
Wilson, Charles Reagan. "Mississippi Delta." Southern Spaces, 4 April 2004.
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/wilson/3a.htm
Cheseborough, Steve. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
Dellinger, Matt. "Mississippi: The State of The Blues." Oxford American, Summer Music Issue, 2001.
Knight, Richard. The Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2003.
Nardone, Jennifer. "'I Can Sit Right Here, Thinks a Thousand Miles Away' Revealing the Blues in the Space of Jukejoints". Mississippi Folklife, 31 (1999), 20-29.
Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues: The Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta. New York: Penguin Books, 1981.
Pearson, Barry Lee. "Jook Women." Arkansas Review, 34(1), 18-29.
“Slip Inside the Deep South." Esquire magazine, Japan, 18 (November 2004).
Wang, Ning. "Rethinking Authenticity in the Tourism Experience." Annals of Tourism Research, 26 (1999), 349-370.
Films
Bishop, John M., Alan Lomax and Worth W. Long. The Land Where the Blues Began (The Mississippi Authority for Eduational Television & Alan Lomax, 1979)
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,109
Ferris, Bill. Give My Poor Heart Ease: Mississippi Delta Bluesmen (Yale University Media Design Studio with the Center for Southern Folklore, 1975)
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,80
Links
The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/
Downs, Tom. "On the Road- Top Five Juke Joints." Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/journeys/blues/3.htm
Johnson, Jeff. The Signposts of a Style: Mapping Out the Blues. Chicago Sun-Times. April 4, 2004.
http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/blues/sho-sunday-blues04a.html
Kelly, Leslie. Delta Food and Blues Blog. Memphis Commercial Appeal. February 27, 2004.
http://blogs.commercialappeal.com/deltablues/archives/on_the_road/
Komara, Edward (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Blues. New York: Routledge, 2005.
http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/blues/index.html
Mississippi Delta Blues Road Trip
http://www.pbs.org/theblues/roadtrip/deltahist.html
Mississippi Delta Blues Website
http://www.mississippideltabluesinfo.com/
Mississippi: The State of the Blues from The Oxford American
http://mattdellinger.com/articles/stateblues.html
Peruzzi, Brett. Delta Bound: A Traveler's Guide to the Land Where Blues Began
http://www.lostneighborhoods.com/delta/deltabound.htm
Rankin, Tom. “Cane Brakes, High Water, Drought: The Mississippi Delta.” Festival of American Folklife Program Book, 1997.
http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/Festival1997/cane.htm
Sweets, Ellen. "Down in the Delta." DenverPost.com, May 14, 2006.
http://denverpost.com/travel/ci_3803695
Trail of the Hellhound: Delta Blues in the Lower Missisisppi Valley
http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/blues/
Wilson, Charles Reagan. "Mississippi Delta." Southern Spaces, 4 April 2004.
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/wilson/3a.htm
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