The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the birthplace of the blues.

The blues music which arose from the Mississippi Delta has in many ways come to define modern American music. There is a deep ...

The blues put Mississippi on the map, and that’s why we must save Po ... 750-megawatt unit in Greenville the “Delta Blues Advanced Power Station” for the music that’s made us famous.

One window into life during and after the flood is Delta blues music, which was blossoming in Mississippi at the time of the disaster. Blues artists from Bessie Smith to Barbecue Bob recorded over ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

Robertson Scholars create process to preserve the stories of a new generation of activists When they arrived in Mississippi for an internship ... each video would start by paying homage to the Delta’s ...

The Mississippi Delta is known as the birthplace of the blues. Editor's note: This story has been updated to add information about Greenwood Cemetery. Black History Month is a time to celebrate ...