Since the 1990s, a growing heritage tourism industry built around celebrations and commemorations of local blues music history has occupied a prominent economic position in the state of Mississippi. The blues tourism industry has produced museums, historical trails, and a dense …
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Metal music is a highly misunderstood style of music that is dismissed and demonized all over the world; even in the US and Europe where it originated it is still vilified and viewed as an unsophisticated style of music. In the Islamic Republic of Iran the same views are amplifi…
The title of this collection of poems stands as the paradoxical answer to the question of what blues and blindness has come to mean to the author. As elaborated upon in the critical preface, this same paradox also answers many questions generated in and by the poems in the colle…
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the music known as North Mississippi Hill Country Blues. Since the name of a place is present in the title, North Mississippi Hill Country Blues, this thesis addresses where and what is the Hill Country. It examines how the landscape …
This dissertation explores the compositions of songwriter Harold Arlen, viewing them as musical portraits of the immigrant experience and the racial politics of the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. This approach reveals how Arlen’s upbringing in a racial…