{"id":185,"date":"2009-09-14T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=185"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:11:19","slug":"perry-mr-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/09\/14\/perry-mr-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry, Mr. Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"?p=76\">Archives<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=85\">Interview Transcripts<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=78\">Maps<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=77\">Photos<\/a> | <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"?p=94\">South Africa<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=95\">Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><!--    --><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Interview with Mr. Bill Perry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/files\/2010\/02\/Perry-Bill-11-4-2008-interview-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Click here to download the transcript of this interview.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview: Blues music<\/p>\n<p>Date:<span style=\"color: #000000\"> 11 November, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Delta Blues Museum, Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mr. Bill Perry<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: Atandi Anyona<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Ryan Koons<\/p>\n<p>*Transcript edited by narrator<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Blues guitarist Bill &#8220;Howlin\u2019 Mad&#8221; Perry was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi.\u00a0 He sharecropped with his parents, and eventually started playing gospel and then blues music.\u00a0 He now performs regularly and also teaches at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarkesdale, Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Perry discusses the relationship and similarities and differences between blues and gospel music.\u00a0 He sings a blues song of his own composition, then contextualizes it into his experience.\u00a0 He details some of the stigmas attached to blues musicians, and draws out a musical family tree, including country music, blues, gospel, jazz, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Mr. Bill Perry Click here to download the transcript of this interview. General Topic of Interview: Blues music Date: 11 November, 2008 Location: Delta Blues Museum, Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Mr. Bill Perry Interviewer: Atandi Anyona Transcriber: Ryan Koons *Transcript [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}