Music of Mississippi
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| Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra - Meridian Symphony Orchestra - Mississippi Symphony Orchestra - Tupelo Symphony Orchestra - University of Southern Mississippi Symphony | |
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| Delta Blues Museum | |
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| Mississippi Delta Blues Festival - Jimmie Rodgers Festival - B. B. King Homecoming and Indian Bayou Festival | |
| State song | "Mississippi Song" |
| Other topics | Delta blues |
Mississippi is best-known as the home of the blues, which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century. The Delta blues is the style most closely associated with the state, and includes legendary performers like Robert Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt.
The fiddle and banjo are common folk instruments in Mississippi, which has also seen some development as a gospel, country music and Appalachian folk music center. The Leake County Revelers' brand of folk music saw some national popularity late in the 1930s, at around the same time as Mississippi native Jimmie Rodgers innovated modern country music. Mississippi was also home to Malaco Records, a well-known indie R&B label.
[edit] Delta blues
Main article: Delta blues
The Delta blues is often regarded as the most rootsy or traditional style of the blues, or as the ultimate origins of the blues. The style has also been called the "most influential form of rural blues (with an) eerie, sometimes demonic power that is unmatched by other American acoustic music".[1] Many of these performers recorded in the early 20th century; however, by the 1950s, they were largely forgotten outside of Mississippi. Many moved to Chicago, and became a part of the more mainstream Chicago blues scene.
In the 1960s, however, a roots revival began across the United States, and interest in Mississippi's blues musicians increased.
[edit] Reference
- ^ Unterberger, Richie (1999). Music USA: The Rough Guide. The Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-421-X.
[edit] Further reading
- Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues. Viking.
