Ted Gioia is author of "Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

For example, the French artists Honore Daumier and later Henri Toulouse Lautrec were masters of this process.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

The program aims to empower young people by making them masters of language and reading.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

And South African Charl Schwartzel won the Masters in April.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

She studied and travelled with Sufi masters in Israel, Sri Lanka,Senegal and Gambia, as well as closer to home in Pennsylvania and South Carolina, in order to deepen her understanding of this particular form of Islam.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21