Julia Simon

Time in the Blues

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Immediate and spontaneous, the blues focuses on the present moment, creating an experience of time for performer and listener. Time in the Blues offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the forms of temporality produced by and reflected in the blues within the historical context of Jim Crow segregation, sharecropping, racist violence, and migration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190666552
• ISBN-10: 0190666552
• Artikelnr.: 48575927

Autorenporträt

Julia Simon is Professor of French at the University of California, Davis. She is the author, most recently, of Rousseau Among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics. Her interests in the blues spring from her experience as a blues musician, as bass player and vocalist in the duo, Chicken & Dumpling, and the electric band, Julie and the Jukes.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1 Theoretical Considerations
* Chapter 2 Sharecropping, Risk, Time, and Agency: Fattening Frogs for
Snakes
* Chapter 3 Waiting: Longing, Prison, Addiction, and the Enduring
Present
* Chapter 4 Tense, Mood, and Aspect: Story-Telling and Migration
* Chapter 5 Objects, Fragments, Scenes, and the Construction of
Narrative
* Chapter 6 Time, Tradition, Performance, and the Aesthetic Object:
Repetition
* Conclusion
* Discography
* Bibliography