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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785045403321

Autore

Lipsitz George

Titolo

Midnight at the Barrelhouse [[electronic resource] ] : the Johnny Otis story / / George Lipsitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4529-4668-X

0-8166-7368-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Classificazione

9,2

Disciplina

781.643092

B

Soggetti

Rhythm and blues musicians - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: There's a riot goin' on -- Central Avenue breakdown -- Double crossing blues -- Willie and the hand jive -- Listen to the lambs -- All night long -- Play Misty for me -- The Watts breakaway -- Midnight at the Barrelhouse -- Acknowledgments -- Testimony: In praise of Johnny Otis.

Sommario/riassunto

Looking closely at the limit of both multilingual literary expression and the literary journalism, criticism, and scholarship that comments on multilingual work, Babel's Shadow presents a critical reflection on the fate of literature in a world gripped by the crisis of globalization.