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9780252075667

If Beale Street Could Talk

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  • ISBN13:

    9780252075667

  • ISBN10:

    0252075668

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-10-08
  • Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

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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.

Author Biography

Robert Cantwell is a professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina and the author of Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture, When We Were Good: The Folk Revival, and Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound, which won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introduction: Folklife as Real Lifep. xi
Darkling 1 Listen
If Beale Street Could Talk: A Reflection on Musical Meaningp. 3
Darkling I Listen: Making Sense of the Folkways Anthologyp. 26
The Magic 8 Ball: From Analog to Digitalp. 42
The Invisible Science: The Spirit of Calculationp. 53
Feasts of Unnaming
Feasts of Unnaming: Folk Festivals and the Representation of Folklifep. 71
White City Elegy: Modern and Postmodern at the World's Fairp. 111
The Annual Dance: Festivity and Culture in "The Dead"p. 142
The Parallax Effect
Fanfare for the Little Guy: The Scots and the Pictsp. 193
A Harvest of Illth: Blues, Blackface, Fossil Fuelp. 212
The Parallax Effect: Representation and Incorporationp. 223
Folklore's Pathetic Fallacy: The Culture Powerp. 231
Habitus, Ethnomimesis: A Note on The Logic of Practicep. 246
Notesp. 265
Indexp. 279
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