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Searching For Satan In The Pre-War Devil Blues, Kyle Mahoney
Searching For Satan In The Pre-War Devil Blues, Kyle Mahoney
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While many scholars have aimed to address the devil as he appears in the lyrics of the blues, scholars have yet to directly address Satan as he appears in the blues. This paper aims to fill that gap in the existing literature, seeking answers to why "devil" appears so much more frequently than "Satan." In reviewing the singular pre-war blues song which does mention Satan by name, Robert Johnson's "Me and the Devil Blues," the ways in which "Satan" and "devil" are used in the lyrics of other forms of African American music like the spiritual, and the cultural contexts …