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Live at Jackson Station - Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar

English · Hardback

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"The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980's, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive late-night roadhouse filled with people from all walks of life who gathered to listen to the live music of high-energy performers. Housed in a Reconstruction-era railway station, the blues club embraced local Southern culture and brought a cosmopolitan vibe to the South Carolina backcountry. Over the years, Jackson Station became known as one of the most iconic blues bars in the South. It offered an exciting venue for local and traveling musical artists, including Widespread Panic, the Swimming Pool Qs, Bob Margolin, Tinsley Ellis, and R & B legend Nappy Brown, who loved to keep playing long after sunrise. The good times ground to a terrifying halt in the early morning hours of April 7, 1990. A brutal attack--an apparent hate crime--on the owner Gerald Jackson forever altered the lives of all involved. In this fast-paced narrative, Jackson Station emerges as a cultural kaleidoscope that served as an oasis of tolerance and diversity in a time and place that often suffered from undercurrents of bigotry and violence--an uneasy coexistence of incongruent forces that have long permeated Southern life and culture"--Back cover

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Daniel M. Harrison is a professor of sociology at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, and the author of Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter: The Dark Side of Political Protest.


Summary

In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club, was a festive late-night roadhouse filled with people from all walks of life. In this narrative, Jackson Station emerges as a cultural kaleidoscope that served as an oasis of tolerance and diversity in a time and place that often suffered from undercurrents of bigotry and violence.

Product details

Authors Daniel M Harrison, Daniel M. Harrison
Publisher The University of South Carolina Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2021
 
EAN 9781643362069
ISBN 978-1-64336-206-9
No. of pages 256
Dimensions 155 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
Weight 476 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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