![]() ![]() Within this volume, that story offers hope and wonder. Originally published by Presses Universitaires de Li�ge in Belgium, this collection has been revised and updated with a new foreword by William Ferris, new images added, and some essays translated into English for the first time.Patton's personal life and his recorded music bear witness to how he endured and prevailed in his struggle as a black man during the early twentieth century. This volume brings together essays from that international symposium on Charley Patton and Mississippi blues traditions, influences, and comparisons. Fifty years after Charley Patton's death in 1934, a team of blues experts gathered five thousand miles from Dockery Farms at the University of Liege in Belgium to honor the life and music of the most influential artist of the Mississippi Delta blues. ![]()
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