02132cam a2200289 i 4500 462867877 TxAuBib 20210202120000.0 200422s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020018408 9781469660424 PAP 24.95 1469660423 PAP 24.95 TxAuBib rda Foster, B. Brian. I don't like the blues [BOOK] : race, place, and the backbeat of black life / B. Brian Foster. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Provided by publisher. 20210202. Blues (Music) Social aspects Mississippi. African Americans Mississippi Social life and customs. African Americans Mississippi Social conditions.