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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
B Brian Foster |
ISBN: | 9781469660417 1469660415 9781469660424 1469660423 |
OCLC Number: | 1147885399 |
Description: | 193 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prelude -- Introduction -- Hard...make it easy -- We ain't that no mo' -- That's for the white folks -- You just get tired of it -- Conclusion -- Coda. |
Other Titles: | I do not like the blues |
Responsibility: | B. Brian Foster. |
Abstract:
In this illuminating work, B. Brian 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.
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Foster's thoughtful and well-researched look at race and the blues via an exploration of a distressed and declining Southern rural town will be useful to music and sociology academics." -Library Journal Read more...

