I'm feeling the blues right now [electronic resource] : blues tourism and the Mississippi Delta / Stephen A. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Stephen A., 1964-

Series:

American made music series.

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--Social aspects.

Blues (Music).

Blues (Music)--Mississippi--Delta (Region)--History and criticism.

Music and tourism--Mississippi--Delta (Region)--History.

Music and tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (617 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promotional materials portray the Delta's blues culture and its musicians. Those involved in selling the blues in Mississippi work to promote the music while often conveniently forgetting the state's historical record of racial and economic injustice. King's research includes numerous interviews with blues mu

Contents:

The history of the Mississippi Delta blues

The history of blues tourism in the Mississippi Delta

Blues myths and the rhetorical imagination of place

Blues festivals, race, and the construction of authenticity

A blues countermemory : the history of Mississippi, the story of the Delta

Public memory, historical amnesia, and the Shack Up Inn

Assessing tourism goals : money, image, and reconciliation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography (p. 239-267), discography (p. 268-270) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-283-43476-8

9786613434760

1-61703-011-2

OCLC:

774385320