Third of twelve informal lectures in which blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow discusses the history, sociology, philosophy, and cultural politics of the blues.
Gussow, an associate professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, is the author of three books on the blues: Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (1998), Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (2002), and Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York (2007).
This lecture is part of an informal, experimental MOOC (massive open online course). To access all twelve lectures as they become available, along with selected additional materials, please visit the course webpage: