Yoknapatawpha Blues: Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Roots MusicDuring the 1920s and 1930s, Mississippi produced two of the most significant influences upon twentieth century culture: the modernist fiction of William Faulkner and the recorded blues songs of African American musicians like Charley Patton, Geeshie Wiley, and Robert Johnson. In Yoknapatawpha Blues, the first book examining both Faulkner and the music of the south, Tim A. Ryan identifies provocative parallels of theme and subject in diverse regional