Description In When Your Way Gets Dark: A Rhetoric of the Blues,
Jeffrey Carroll presents a cluster of rhetorical and literary
theories that illuminate the blues' place in our social, political,
and cultural traditions. Drawing from his 35 years of blues
encounters, Carroll also analyzes performers and nine historic
blues performances-including the blues of Charlie Patton, Skip
James, Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric
Clapton, and others-as well as their own accounts of performances,
to understand, paraphrasing Dylan Thomas, the force through which
the blue fuse drives the music. When Your Way Gets Dark uncovers
the rhetorical positions of the most significant writing and
writers on the blues-Samuel Charters, Paul Oliver, Robert Palmer,
William Ferris, David Evans, LeRoi Jones, Ralph Ellison, Larry
Neal, Albert Murray-and seeks to find rhetorics there that may
resolve or exacerbate the question of race, the blues, and
audience. In When Your Way Gets Dark, Carroll also shows how
teachers and students can-by reinventing its contexts, sound, and
effects-recover the rhetorical power of the blues. What Others Have
Said When Your Way Gets Dark presents a sustained look at how
African-American art and performance has extended and shaped the
American aesthetic and cultural landscape. Carroll shows that the
blues are a legitimate art-form for sustained study, academic and
otherwise; in so doing, he stretches our conceptions of what
constitutes a text . . . and how we can explore text as performance
in terms of theory, interpretation, and pedagogy-without reducing
the blues to being only a literary object. . . . Carroll writes
about the blues with grace, style, and insight. -Thomas Rickert,
Purdue University About the Author Jeffrey Carroll is Professor of
English and Director of the Graduate Program in English at the
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where he teaches courses on the
blues, rhetoric and composition, and the American novel. He is the
author of two textbooks, Dialogs: Reading and Writing in the
Disciplines and The Active Reader (with Anne Ruggles Gere), as well
as a novel, Climbing to the Sun.
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