ISBN:
9781469660448
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
,
maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
North Carolina scholarship online
Keywords:
Blues
;
Afroamerikanische Musik
;
Soziale Wirklichkeit
;
Blues (Music) Social aspects
;
African Americans Social life and customs
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Staat Mississippi
Abstract:
How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about Black culture and found himself hearing about the blues. One moment, Black Mississippians would say they knew and appreciated the blues. The next, they would say they didn't like it. For five years, Foster listened and asked: 'How?' 'Why not?' 'Will it ever change?' This is the story of the answers to his questions. In this illuminating work, Foster takes us where not many blues writers and scholars have gone: into the homes, memories, speculative visions, and lifeworlds of Black folks in contemporary Mississippi to hear what they have to say about the blues and all that has come about since their forebears first sang them.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2020
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660424.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660424.001.0001
