Music of Mississippi

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Institutions
Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra - Meridian Symphony Orchestra - Mississippi Symphony Orchestra - Tupelo Symphony Orchestra - University of Southern Mississippi Symphony
Organizations
Delta Blues Museum
Venues
Juke joints
Festivals
Mississippi Delta Blues Festival - Jimmie Rodgers Festival - B. B. King Homecoming and Indian Bayou Festival
State song	"Mississippi Song"
Topics	Delta blues

Mississippi is best known as the home of the blues, which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century. The Delta blues is the style most closely associated with the state, and includes performers like Robert Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt.

The fiddle and banjo are common folk instruments in Mississippi, which has also seen some development as a gospel, country music and Appalachian folk music center. The Leake County Revelers' brand of folk music saw some national popularity late in the 1930s, at around the same time as Mississippi native Jimmie Rodgers innovated modern country music. Mississippi was also home to Malaco Records, a well-known indie R&B label.

Singer Jimmy Buffett was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1946.

Delta blues

Main article: Delta blues

The Delta blues is often regarded as the most rootsy or traditional style of the blues, or as the ultimate origins of the blues. The style has also been called the "most influential form of rural blues (with an) eerie, sometimes demonic power that is unmatched by other American acoustic music".^[1] Many of these performers recorded in the early 20th century; however, by the 1950s, they were largely forgotten outside of Mississippi. Many moved to Chicago, and became a part of the more mainstream Chicago blues scene.

In the 1960s, however, a roots revival began across the United States, and interest in Mississippi's blues musicians increased.

Hip-Hop

{{Empty sJustin Scott (born August 26, 1986), better known by his stage name Big K.R.I.T., is an American hip hop musician and record producer from Meridian, Mississippi. Lavell Crump, (born April 11, 1973), better known by the stage name David Banner, is an American rapper, record producer & occasional actor. Banner was born in Jackson, Mississippi and graduated from Southern University. He started his music career as a member of the rap duo, Crooked Lettaz before going solo in 2000 with Them Firewater Boyz, Vol. 1 and signed to Universal Records in 2003. With Universal, Banner released four albums: Mississippi: The Album (2003), MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water (2004), Certified (2005), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (2008).

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References

1. ^ Unterberger, Richie (1999). Music USA: The Rough Guide. The Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-421-X. 

Further reading

• Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues. Viking.