If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture

by Robert Cantwell

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075668
• ISBN13: 9780252075667
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"