Scott Barretta

Biography

Scott Barretta is best known as a Blues music journalist, historian, and instructor at the University of Mississippi focussed on researching and teaching Blues music history, Southern studies, the civil rights movement, race, sociology and anthropology. Barretta studied sociology focussing on historical comparative studies of political issues, later completing a dissertation on homelessness during the Great Depression at University of Virginia. He studied a Ph.D. at Lund University, Sweden, but…