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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foster, B. Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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'"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (206 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469660448