The magazine
The magazine
Five long reads: the names, the town, the music, the screen, and the comeback.
This be-BOP is also a place to read. Five pieces, each one standing on its own.
Section
The great names of Clarksdale
Born here, raised here, or changed here. Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke, Ike Turner, Bessie Smith, W. C. Handy — and the line that runs to Super Chikan and Kingfish Ingram.
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A history of Clarksdale
Cotton, two highways and a railroad. Sharecropping, the Red Summer of 1919, Tennessee Williams as a boy, Martin Luther King in 1958 and 1962, then the Great Migration and the machines.
Section
A history of the blues
From the field hollers to Chicago, by way of one railway platform in Tutwiler where W. C. Handy heard a man play with a knife blade and wrote it down.
Section
Coahoma County on screen
What was filmed here, what was only set here, and why the difference matters. Including the day Sinners came home to a town with no cinema.
Section
The renaissance of Clarksdale
How a town with nothing left but its music decided the music was the economy.
The magazine
The magazine
Five long reads: the names, the town, the music, the screen, and the comeback.
This be-BOP is also a place to read. Five pieces, each one standing on its own.
Section
The great names of Clarksdale
Born here, raised here, or changed here. Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke, Ike Turner, Bessie Smith, W. C. Handy — and the line that runs to Super Chikan and Kingfish Ingram.
Section
A history of Clarksdale
Cotton, two highways and a railroad. Sharecropping, the Red Summer of 1919, Tennessee Williams as a boy, Martin Luther King in 1958 and 1962, then the Great Migration and the machines.
Section
A history of the blues
From the field hollers to Chicago, by way of one railway platform in Tutwiler where W. C. Handy heard a man play with a knife blade and wrote it down.
Section
Coahoma County on screen
What was filmed here, what was only set here, and why the difference matters. Including the day Sinners came home to a town with no cinema.
Section
The renaissance of Clarksdale
How a town with nothing left but its music decided the music was the economy.