blues: Media
music
Videos
Hear a discussion of the origin of the blues and the Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, Mississippi
A discussion of the origins of the blues, from the documentary The Blues Lives...
Images
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1936.
Carl Van Vechten Estate/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-USZ62-11788
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