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Review of “Live at Jackson Station: Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar”

2021; Oxford University Press; Volume: 100; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/sf/soab065

1534-7605

Jason T. Eastman,

Theater, Performance, and Music History

In many ways, it is somewhat intriguing the southeastern United States is known so much for its music, yet the most famous venues are elsewhere, say CBGBs in New York City or Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. Yet in other ways, the imagery of live southern music involves a seemingly anonymous, remote place of reclaimed space where the genuinely authentic music and musician take precedence over anything else at all hours of the night and early morning. In Live at Jackson Station: Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar, Daniel M. Harrison takes you inside or backstage at one of these clubs in rural South Carolina, from its inception to its demise. While archetypal in many ways, Jackson Station also stands largely in contrast to what one might expect of a music club in the rural south as it was a place accepting and welcoming...