The Land Where the Blues Began
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The Land Where the Blues Began is a seminal book documenting the origins, culture, and musicians of the Mississippi Delta blues tradition.
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| The Land Where the Blues Began canonical | 2 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Land Where the Blues Began Context triple: [Alan Lomax, notableWork, The Land Where the Blues Began]
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A.
Home of the Blues
"Home of the Blues" is a classic country song, best known as a Johnny Cash hit that laments heartbreak and sorrow in a symbolic house of misery.
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B.
Mother of the Blues
Mother of the Blues is the honorific nickname given to Ma Rainey, a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer who helped shape and popularize the genre.
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C.
Birth of the Blues
"Birth of the Blues" is a rendition of the popular standard featured on Ray Charles’s influential 1961 compilation album *Genius + Soul = Jazz*.
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D.
Story of the Blues
"Story of the Blues" is a song by English band After Hours, known for its emotive reflection on hardship and resilience in the blues tradition.
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E.
Memphis Blues
"Memphis Blues" is an early 20th-century song by W. C. Handy that became one of the first published blues compositions and a foundational piece in the development of American blues music.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Land Where the Blues Began Target entity description: The Land Where the Blues Began is a seminal book documenting the origins, culture, and musicians of the Mississippi Delta blues tradition.
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A.
Home of the Blues
"Home of the Blues" is a classic country song, best known as a Johnny Cash hit that laments heartbreak and sorrow in a symbolic house of misery.
-
B.
Mother of the Blues
Mother of the Blues is the honorific nickname given to Ma Rainey, a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer who helped shape and popularize the genre.
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C.
Birth of the Blues
"Birth of the Blues" is a rendition of the popular standard featured on Ray Charles’s influential 1961 compilation album *Genius + Soul = Jazz*.
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D.
Story of the Blues
"Story of the Blues" is a song by English band After Hours, known for its emotive reflection on hardship and resilience in the blues tradition.
-
E.
Memphis Blues
"Memphis Blues" is an early 20th-century song by W. C. Handy that became one of the first published blues compositions and a foundational piece in the development of American blues music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Library of Congress field recordings ⓘ |
| author | Alan Lomax ⓘ |
| awarded |
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
ⓘ
linked to:
National Book Critics Circle Award
|
| basedOn |
field recordings by Alan Lomax
ⓘ
oral histories collected in the Mississippi Delta ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| documents |
influence of African musical traditions on blues
ⓘ
juke joints and informal performance spaces ⓘ lives of blues musicians ⓘ migration of blues musicians from rural South to urban centers ⓘ origins of the blues in the Mississippi Delta ⓘ relationship between work songs and blues ⓘ religious and secular musical interplay in the Delta ⓘ role of the blues in African American resistance and expression ⓘ |
| explores |
cultural roots of blues lyrics
ⓘ
prison work farms ⓘ sharecropping system ⓘ social conditions in the Jim Crow South ⓘ |
| focusesOn | Delta blues tradition ⓘ |
| genre |
music history
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
ethnomusicological
ⓘ
historical ⓘ |
| hasReputation | seminal work on Delta blues ⓘ |
| includes | interviews with blues musicians ⓘ |
| influenced | subsequent scholarship on blues history ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed ethnographic approach to blues culture
ⓘ
firsthand accounts from musicians and community members ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| publisher | Pantheon Books ⓘ |
| setIn |
Mississippi Delta
ⓘ
linked to:
North Mississippi Delta
|
| subject |
African American culture
ⓘ
Mississippi Delta ⓘ
linked to:
North Mississippi Delta
blues music ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
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