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Cantwell, Robert

 
9780252075667: If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0252075668 ISBN 13 : 9780252075667
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252075668
ISBN 13 
9780252075667
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
282
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