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How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This
was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he
returned to his home state to learn about black culture and found
himself hearing about the blues. One moment, black Mississippians
would say they knew and appreciated the blues. The next, they would
say they didn't like it. For five years, Foster listened and asked:
"How?" "Why not?" "Will it ever change?" This is the story of the
answers to his questions. In this illuminating work, 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. In so doing, Foster urges us to think differently about race,
place, and community development and models a different way of
hearing the sounds of black life, a method that he calls listening
for the backbeat.
How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This
was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he
returned to his home state to learn about black culture and found
himself hearing about the blues. One moment, black Mississippians
would say they knew and appreciated the blues. The next, they would
say they didn't like it. For five years, Foster listened and asked:
"How?" "Why not?" "Will it ever change?" This is the story of the
answers to his questions. In this illuminating work, 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. In so doing, Foster urges us to think differently about race,
place, and community development and models a different way of
hearing the sounds of black life, a method that he calls listening
for the backbeat.
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