I don't like the blues : race, place, & the backbeat of black life / B. Brian Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, B. Brian, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--Social aspects--Mississippi.

Blues (Music).

African Americans--Mississippi--Social life and customs.

African Americans.

African Americans--Mississippi--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908577-1-2

979-88-908577-2-9

1-4696-6043-1

1-4696-6041-5

OCLC:

1198892685