TY - BOOK ID - 78493421 TI - Beyond the crossroads PY - 2017 SN - 1469633671 146963368X 9781469633688 9781469633671 9781469633657 1469633655 9781469633664 1469633663 9798890853820 PB - Chapel Hill DB - UniCat KW - Devil in music. KW - Blues (Music) KW - Music KW - Blues (Songs, etc.) KW - Jive (Music) KW - African Americans KW - Folk music KW - Popular music KW - Rhythm and blues music KW - Washboard band music KW - Religious aspects. KW - History and criticism. KW - Johnson, Robert, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78493421 AB - Adam Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence in the blues. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. ER -