Abstract
Tracing the inverted traveling cultural roots of the Great Migration back toward the “source” of Delta blues music, blues tourists take a sonic journey from North to South in the U.S. that remembers black diasporic and migrational patterns of blues traveling—distinguishing between the economic, social, and political circumstances that often radically differentiate two modes of being “on the road.”
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© 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007
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