Where Is the Mississippi River? by Dina Anastasio & Ted Hammond

Author:Dina Anastasio & Ted Hammond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2017-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Music on the Mississippi

Besides books, the Mighty Miss has inspired countless songs—everything from sad ballads like “Ol’ Man River,” written for the Broadway musical Show Boat in 1927, to catchy tunes like “Mississippi Mud.”

Country singer Johnny Cash lived about twenty miles west of the Mississippi. As a boy, he watched the water spill over the banks and spread out across the land. One of his most famous songs, “Five Feet High and Rising,” tells the story of a river rising higher and higher.

From its birthplace in New Orleans, jazz spread to other cities, in part, thanks to the Mississippi River. How did this happen? In 1919, a seventeen-year-old black musician from New Orleans took a job playing cornet in a band on a riverboat traveling as far as Minneapolis. The musician’s name was Louis Armstrong. A few years later he moved to Chicago, where some of his most famous records were produced.

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