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Walking blues : making Americans from Emerson to Elvis
- Title
- Walking blues : making Americans from Emerson to Elvis / Timothy L. Parrish.
- Author
- Parrish, Timothy, 1964-
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E169.1 .P234 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 288 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Shows how our American social, racial, and ethnic conflicts often mark the starting point for the various acts of creation through which we make and remake ourselves as Americans."--Cover.
- Subject
- National characteristics, American
- Cultural pluralism > United States
- Popular culture > United States > Philosophy
- Blues (Music) > Social aspects > United States
- Pragmatism
- pragmatism
- Civilization > Philosophy
- Cultural pluralism
- Intellectual life
- Popular culture > Philosophy
- Gesellschaft
- Popkultur
- Philosophie
- Blues
- United States > Civilization > Philosophy
- United States > Intellectual life
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-280) and index.
- Includes discography.
- Contents
- Introduction: Practicing American Identity -- What Difference Does the Difference Make? -- Thinking in Blues -- Ralph Ellison's Invisible Democracy -- Philip Roth: The Jew That Got Away -- Don't Be Cruel: Elvis Invents America Again.
- ISBN
- 1558493026
- 9781558493025
- LCCN
- 00054392
- OCLC
- ocm45784418
- 45784418
- SCSB-1233258
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library