The Blues
Across
- 4. An informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking
- 6. Magic spell or charm
- 7. City that gave us "electric blues"
- 8. State which birthed the blues
- 10. A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner
- 12. Playing music in the street or another public place for voluntary donations
- 13. "A ____ Deal" Pact whereby a person trades soul for some worldly or benefit.
- 14. Moniker for McKinley Morganfield: _______ Waters
- 15. Field ____: vocal music sung by field slaves and forced laborers
- 16. "Father of the Blues"
Down
- 1. Bessie Smith nickname
- 2. "______ on My Trail" - Johnson song.
- 3. Call and _______
- 5. Laws that enforced racial segregation
- 6. "The Great ____" The largest movement of Americans in U.S. history
- 9. Title of Nicholas Lemann's award-winning book, "The ____ Land."
- 11. Fictitious name, especially one used by an author or musician.