Lost Women of the Blues and the Birth of Modern Black Music

Windham Campbell Prize Festival
John Jeremiah Sullivan and Daphne Brooks discuss the search for the legendary blues artists Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, as well as race records, the politics of blues collecting, and the glorious and turbulent history of black music in America.
(African American Studies, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and Whitney Humanities Center)

Poster
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