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If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture

If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture

Cantwell, Robert

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Mythology & FolkloreGeneral SociologyMusic Reference

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ISBN10: 0252075668
ISBN13: 9780252075667
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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