I don't like the blues: race, place, and the backbeat of Black life

"In this illuminating work, Foster takes us where not many blues writers and scholars have gone: into the homes, memories, speculative visions, and lifeworlds of black folks in contemporary Mississippi to hear what they have to say about the blues and all that has come about since their forebea...

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Main Author: Foster, B. Brian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2020]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"In this illuminating work, Foster takes us where not many blues writers and scholars have gone: into the homes, memories, speculative visions, and lifeworlds of black folks in contemporary Mississippi to hear what they have to say about the blues and all that has come about since their forebears first sang them. In so doing, Foster urges us to think differently about race, place, and community development and models a different way of hearing the sounds of black life, a method that he calls 'listening for the backbeat'"--
Physical Description:193 Seiten Karten
ISBN:9781469660424
9781469660417

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