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University of North Carolina Press I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life

Name: I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
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Product Description How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about black culture and found himself hearing about the blues. One moment, black Mississippians would say they knew and appreciated the blues. The next, they would say they didn't like it. For five years, Foster listened and asked: "How?" "Why not?" "Will it ever change?" This is the story of the answers to his questions.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. Review This is a book about music and culture. But, most of all, this is about Clarksdale's Black residents' self-conscious challenging of the possibilities denied to them by the status quo. . . . [Foster's] work also opens room for other comparative investigations approaching similar processes all over the African Diaspora spaces in the American continent . . . --Oral History JournalFoster's thoughtful and well-researched look at race and the blues via an exploration of a distressed and declining Southern rural town will be useful to music and sociology academics.--Library Journal About the Author B. Brian Foster is assistant professor of sociology and southern studies at the University of Mississippi.

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Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1469660415
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Blues
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 December 2020
Listed Since: 27 March 2020

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