Music Of Mississippi
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 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.
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“I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,—that were a bath and a medicine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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