Music in Memphis
The Mid-South city built on a Mississippi River bluff, Memphis sits at the confluence of extraordinary musical streams: Anglo-Celtic upcountry song styles, fiddle bands, and gospel harmonies mingled with Delta blues, African American congregational and quartet singing, and jazz up from New Orleans....
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
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| description | The Mid-South city built on a Mississippi River bluff, Memphis sits at the confluence of extraordinary musical streams: Anglo-Celtic upcountry song styles, fiddle bands, and gospel harmonies mingled with Delta blues, African American congregational and quartet singing, and jazz up from New Orleans. The offspring include Memphis soul, rockabilly, rock and roll, and country. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-870148bae0a942b29f080d0f9bf785592022-12-22T01:37:58ZengEmory Center for Digital ScholarshipSouthern Spaces1551-27542004-03-0110.18737/M7BW2CMusic in MemphisAllen Tullos0Emory UniversityThe Mid-South city built on a Mississippi River bluff, Memphis sits at the confluence of extraordinary musical streams: Anglo-Celtic upcountry song styles, fiddle bands, and gospel harmonies mingled with Delta blues, African American congregational and quartet singing, and jazz up from New Orleans. The offspring include Memphis soul, rockabilly, rock and roll, and country.https://southernspaces.org/node/42683MusicUrban and Suburban Studies |
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| title | Music in Memphis |
| title_full | Music in Memphis |
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| title_short | Music in Memphis |
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| topic | Music Urban and Suburban Studies |
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