Representing Environmental Emergency as Social Emergency: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 in Blues Songs from Louisiana and Mississippi

The Great 1927 Flood ranks as the worst environmental disaster in American history. In the early 20th century, Mississippi floods had been worsening as the levee system progressed, in a period when the development of industrial plantations required the brutal exploitation and control of natural and...

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Main Author: Stéphanie DENÈVE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2021-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/11658
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