Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta - Brossura

Woods, Clyde

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ISBN 10: 1844675610 ISBN 13: 9781844675616

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2017

Riassunto

A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta

Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the 200-year-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. The book measures the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations firsthand, while tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy debate. Despite countless defeats under the planter regime, African Americans in the Delta continued to push forward their agenda for social and economic justice.

Throughout this remarkably interdisciplinary book, ranging across fields as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies, and anthropology, Woods demonstrates the role of music—including jazz, rock and roll, soul, rap and, above all, the blues—in sustaining a radical vision of social change.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Clyde Woods (1957–2011) was an Associate Professor of Black Studies and Acting Director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His other books include Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1844675610
• ISBN 13: 9781844675616
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 354
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile