If Beale Street could talk
Subtitle: music, community, culture
By: Robert Cantwell.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780252033629; 9780252075667; 9780252090745
Subjects: Music -- Social aspects -- United States; Folklore -- United States; Ethnomusicology -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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"; title: 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; title: Habitus, ethnomimesis : a note on the logic of practice.