Emmett G. Price III, chair, African American Studies Department and associate professor, Music and African American Studies, Northeastern University
Chronicle the Great Migration through the sounds of the blues of W.C. Handy and Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, the music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, through innovative vocalists such as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, esteemed bandleaders such as Count Basie, and the blues legend Muddy Waters.

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