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If Beale Street could talk : music, community, culture /

Demonstrating the intimate connections among our public, political, and personal lives, these essays by Robert Cantwell explore the vernacular culture of everyday life. A keen and innovative observer of American culture, Cantwell casts a broad and penetrating intelligence over the cultural functioni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cantwell, Robert, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • If Beale Street could talk: Darkling, a reflection on musical meaning ; Darkling I listen: making sense of the Folkways anthology ; The magic 8 ball: from analog to digital ; The invisible science: the spirit of calculation
  • Feasts of unnaming: Feasts of, folk festivals and the representation of folklife ; White city elegy: modern and postmodern at the World's Fair ; The annual dance: festivity and culture in the dead
  • Fanfare for the little guy: The Scots and the picts
  • A harvest of Illth: blues. blackface, fossil fuel
  • Parallax, the parallax effect: Representation and incorporation
  • Folklore's pathetic fallacy: The culture power
  • Habitus, ethnomimesis: A note on the logic of practice.