Development Arrested

The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta

By: Clyde Woods

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Paperback | 2 May 2017 | Edition Number 2

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Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the 200-year-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. The book measures the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations firsthand, while tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy debate. Despite countless defeats under the planter regime, African Americans in the Delta continued to push forward their agenda for social and economic justice.

Throughout this remarkably interdisciplinary book, ranging across fields as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies, and anthropology, Woods demonstrates the role of music—including jazz, rock and roll, soul, rap and, above all, the blues—in sustaining a radical vision of social change.

About the Author

Clyde Woods is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Industry Reviews

"Woods will be quickly and justifiably integrated into the historiography and critical commentary on the blues. His materialized and politicized understanding of the blues, buttressed with insightful commentary on blues pioneers from W.C. Handy to Willie Dixon, is long overdue." - Journal of American History "This path-breaking book by Clyde Woods is a wake-up call for geographers." - Political Geography"

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