If Beale Street could talk : music, community, culture / Robert Cantwell.

Author/creator Cantwell, Robert, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxxvii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Darkling I listen. If Beale Street could talk : 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 unnaming : 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" -- The parallax effect. Fanfare for the little guy : the Scots and the Picts ; A harvest of illth : blues, blackface, fossil fuel ; The parallax effect : representation and incorporation ; Folklore's pathetic fallacy : the culture power -- Habitus, ethnomimesis : a note on The logic of practice.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-277) and index.
LCCN 2008027206
ISBN9780252033629 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252033620 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252075667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0252075668 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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