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If Beale Street Could Talk
Robert Cantwell
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Description for If Beale Street Could Talk
Paperback. A dazzling, expansive exploration of the culture-making activities and artifacts of everyday life Num Pages: 312 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075667
SKU
V9780252075667
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Ref
99-15
About Robert Cantwell
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.
Reviews for If Beale Street Could Talk
"This collection is magisterial in terms of its historical and contemporary depth and breadth, and its conversations with a very wide range of philosophers, theorists, artists, musicians, and cultural forms and ideas. The writing is superb, suffused with originality, playfulness, intensity, and the willingness to take risks that models the best of public intellectual writing." Mary Hufford, editor of Conserving ... Read more