I'm feeling the blues right now : blues tourism and the Mississippi Delta /

In I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: King, Stephen A., 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
Blues (Music) > Social aspects.
Blues (Music) > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > History and criticism.
Music and tourism > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > History.
Music and tourism > History.
Musique et tourisme > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Blues.
Blues (Music)
Music and tourism
Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The history of the Mississippi Delta blues
  • The history of blues tourism in the Mississippi Delta
  • Blues myths and the rhetorical imagination of place
  • Blues festivals, race, and the construction of authenticity
  • A blues countermemory : the history of Mississippi, the story of the Delta
  • Public memory, historical amnesia, and the Shack Up Inn
  • Assessing tourism goals : money, image, and reconciliation.

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