If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture Book

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Folklife as Real Life xi

Part I Darkling 1 Listen

1 If Beale Street Could Talk: A Reflection on Musical Meaning 3

2 Darkling I Listen: Making Sense of the Folkways Anthology 26

3 The Magic 8 Ball: From Analog to Digital 42

4 The Invisible Science: The Spirit of Calculation 53

Part II Feasts of Unnaming

5 Feasts of Unnaming: Folk Festivals and the Representation of Folklife 71

6 White City Elegy: Modern and Postmodern at the World's Fair 111

7 The Annual Dance: Festivity and Culture in "The Dead" 142

Part III The Parallax Effect

8 Fanfare for the Little Guy: The Scots and the Picts 193

9 A Harvest of Illth: Blues, Blackface, Fossil Fuel 212

10 The Parallax Effect: Representation and Incorporation 223

11 Folklore's Pathetic Fallacy: The Culture Power 231

12 Habitus, Ethnomimesis: A Note on The Logic of Practice 246

Notes 265

Index 279