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1 online resource (xxvii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index. |
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. |
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Summary |
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 functioning of popular texts, artifacts, and performers, examining how cultural practices become performances and how performances become artifacts endowed with new meaning through the transformative acts of imagination. Cantwell's points of departure range from the visual and the literary--a photograph of Woody Guthrie, or a poem by John Keats--to major cultural exhibitions such as the World's Columbian Exposition. In all these domains, he unravels the implications for community and cultural life of a continual migration, transformation, and reformulation of cultural content. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Music -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Folklore -- United States.
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Folklore. |
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Ethnomusicology -- United States.
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Ethnomusicology. |
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Cantwell, Robert, 1945- If Beale Street could talk. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008027206 |
ISBN |
9780252090745 (electronic book) |
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0252090748 (electronic book) |
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1283155656 |
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9781283155656 |
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9780252033629 |
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0252033620 |
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9780252075667 |
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0252075668 |
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