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Beyond the Crossroads : The Devil and the Blues Tradition /
"The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ('the devil's music'), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Heaven and hell parties: Southern religion and the devil's music
- Sold it to the devil: the great migration, lost generations, and the perils of the urban dance hall
- I'm going to marry the devil's daughter: blues tricksters signifying on Jim Crow
- The devil's gonna get you: blues romance and the paradoxes of black freedom
- Selling it at the crossroads: the lives and legacies of Robert Johnson
- Playing for the haints: Ike's protege and crossroads folklore
- I got a big white fella from Memphis made a deal with me: black men, white boys, and the anxieties of blues postmodernity in Walter Hill's crossroads
- Local and private legislation: branding the crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi.