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McKittrick, K. (2006). Demonic grounds: Black women and the cartographies of struggle. University of Minnesota Press.
"Demonic Grounds offers an interdisciplinary analysis of black women's geographies. It seeks to consider the myriad of possibilities that emerge when black studies comes into contact with human geography" [Minelle Mahtani's book review].
McKittrick, K. (2007). Black geographies and the politics of place. Between the Lines.
"Black Geographies is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory." It includes essays on blues and hip hop geographies.
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Connell, J. (2003). Sound tracks: Popular music, identity, and place. Routledge.
"Sound Tracks traces the relationships between music, space and identity from inner city 'scenes' to the music of nations, to give a wide-ranging perspective on popular music." [From the Publisher]
Trouillot, M. (2015). Silencing the past: Power and the production of history. Beacon Press.
"The 20th anniversary edition of a pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby." [From the publisher]
Matyas, J. & Jones, C. (2021). Chasing the blues: A traveler's guide to America's music. Backbeat Books.
"A fusion of history, culture, and song in a practical travel guide for music lovers who want to understand more of what helped shape what they are seeing, hearing, and experiencing as they tour the cradle of the blues in Mississippi and beyond." [From the Publisher]
Woods, C. A. (1998). Development arrested: The blues and plantation power in the Mississippi delta. Verso.
"Arguing that [the blues] emerged in response to economic and political restructuring in the Delta during the 20th century, [Clyde Woods] goes on to show how it constitutes a critique of the plantation South, New South modernization, and the transformation of capitalist agriculture during the so-called Green Revolution." -- Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
Carney, G. O. (2003). The sounds of people and places: A geography of American music from country to classical and blues to bop (4th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.
This anthology features a collection of previously published research articles and essays on music geography. This edition includes a range of musical genres in American music including the blues. The chapters on “Music and place” and “Urban blues: The sound of the Windy City” in part three of the book are particularly relevant to this project.
Cheseborough, S. (2018). Blues traveling: The holy sites of Delta blues (Fourth). University Press of Mississippi.
"Blues Traveling was the first and is the indisputably essential guidebook to Mississippi's musical places and its blues history."- [From the Publisher]
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