If Beale Street could talk : music, community, culture / Robert Cantwell.
Demonstrating the intimate connections among our public, political, and personal lives, these essays by Robert Cantwell explore the vernacular culture of everyday life. A keen and innovative observer of American culture, Cantwell casts a broad and penetrating intelligence over the cultural functioni...
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Table of Contents:
- If Beale Street could talk: Darkling, 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, 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
- Fanfare for the little guy: The Scots and the picts
- A harvest of Illth: blues. blackface, fossil fuel
- Parallax, the parallax effect: Representation and incorporation
- Folklore's pathetic fallacy: The culture power
- Habitus, ethnomimesis: A note on the logic of practice.