Blues Came Down This Morning

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The Blues Came Down This Morning - A journey through America's first roots music: the blues. This class will explore blues music's history, major figures (Robert Johnson, B.B., King, Muddy Waters and others), and influence on literature, visual arts and musical forms such as jazz, rock, and country. More significantly, students will investigate crucial events and dimensions of the African-American experience on which the blues commented, including the great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Jim Crow, sharecropping, the great northern migration, and Hurricane Katrina.