Mississippi River Art, Literature and
Music
Art
-
The Prints of Henry P. Bosse. Late 19th century photographs of the
Upper Mississippi River.
- Reps, John W. Cities of the Mississippi:
Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development. Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1994.
Literature
- Botkin, B. A., ed. A Treasury of
Mississippi River Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, 1955.
- Kruse, Horst H. Mark Twain and "Life
on the Mississippi". Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 1981.
- Horwitz, Howard. "'Ours by the Law of
Nature': Reading, Romance, and Independents on Mark Twain's
River." In By the Law of Nature: Form and Value in
Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press,
1991, 87-119.
Mark Twain
Music
- The Blue Highway.
- Delta Blues
Museum
- Mississippi Valley Blues Society.
- The Official Beale Street Website
- River
of Song.
A Smithsonian series on contemporary music along the Mississippi River.
PBS web site has information on the the project, a video, and a music CD.
- Cheseborough, Steve. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta
Blues. University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
- Knight, Richard. The Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago, A
Travel and Music Guide. Trail Blazer Publications, 2001.
- Wald, Elijah, John Junkerman, and Theo
Pelletier. River of Song: A Musucal Journey Down the Mississippi.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Wyman, Bill.
Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart and Soul.
DK Publishing, 2001. He also produced a companion 2 CD set titled Bill
Wyman's Blues Odyssey.
Film
Documentary Film
- The
River. A 1938 documentary by Pare Lorentz.