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Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight.

In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only emerged in the mid-twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music.

Hamilton shows that the Delta blues was effectively invented by white pilgrims, seekers, and ...

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Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight.

In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only emerged in the mid-twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music.

Hamilton shows that the Delta blues was effectively invented by white pilgrims, seekers, and propagandists who headed deep into America’s south in search of an authentic black voice of rage and redemption. In their quest, and in the immense popularity of the music they championed, we confront America’s ongoing love affair with racial difference.

Editorial Reviews

Record Collector
High Fidelity excepted, books about record collectors are pretty rare, but here's one, and it's brilliant...An instant classic.
Time Out New York2
Though critical, Hamilton's portraits aren't one-sided. Rich bits of context-including memorable excerpts from Lomax's love letters-insure that we sympathize with the usually well meaning enthusiasts. The result is a challenging and surprisingly timely book: In Search of the Blues serves as a reminder that even in the hip-hop era, white connoisseurship of black culture remains a complicated matter.
Library Journal

Hamilton (American history, Birkbeck Coll., Univ. of London; When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment) writes about several key ethnomusicologists and record fanatics who documented what they considered uncorrupted, raw blues and extolled blues singers as primitive outsiders. She begins in the early 20th century with Howard Odum and Dorothy Scarborough, who confirmed their racial stereotypes through the study of African American spirituals and blues, and she ends with James McKune and his band of record collectors, the Blues Mafia, who searched for untainted country blues discs and helped ignite the 1960s folk blues revival. Although Hamilton provides an excellent examination of the way preconceptions surfaced in her subjects' definitions of the blues, she does not fully address the motivation of these chroniclers-in part, it was the emotional intensity of the country blues that mesmerized them. She also conflates Delta blues with country blues and New Orleans jazz and doesn't place Delta blues in the larger musical context of the growth of rock 'n' roll. Recommended as a compelling if limited addition on early blues that will appeal mostly to academics and blues fanatics.
—Dave Szatmary

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780465028580
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publication date: 1/28/2008
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Marybeth Hamilton teaches American history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment and the writer and presenter of documentary features for BBC radio. She lives in London, England.

Table of Contents

The Delta Revisited     1
Impartial Testimony     25
On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs     53
Sound Photographs of Negro Songs     91
Been Here and Gone     157
The Real Negro Blues     201
Acknowledgments     247
Notes     251
Index     295

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  • Posted March 16, 2011

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    TONE DEAF

    The "author" of this odd(odd in a bad way) book ignores or outright lies about the evidence for the reality of the music in question. In making her claims of a white manufacturing of what we think of as the music, she succumbs to a subtle and one hopes an unconscious distain for rural black folk, which is masked by an all to common pseudointellectualism.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 3, 2009

    Outstanding Book

    Finally a book that reveals the long hidden truth about the Delta Blues, and how it is not an African American invention, but something created, mysticized, and nurtured by European Americans with fantasies of racial difference. (White people fetishizing all things Black) Contributing to many in the African American Community being labeled as the so-called 'Soul Man' or 'Ghetto' acting, who has to behave a certain way to be considered Black, in order to have their own racial identity.

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