Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
ISBN-13:
9780226305899
ISBN-10:
0226305899
Edition:
Reprint edition
Author:
David Grazian
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
328 pages
Category:
Musical Genres
,
Popular Culture
,
Social Sciences
,
Music
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ISBN-13:
9780226305899
ISBN-10:
0226305899
Edition:
Reprint edition
Author:
David Grazian
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
328 pages
Category:
Musical Genres
,
Popular Culture
,
Social Sciences
,
Music
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Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs (ISBN-13: 9780226305899 and ISBN-10: 0226305899), written by authors
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Blue Chicago takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how iconic—yet empty—images of the blues are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences. Drawing on countless nights in dozens of blues clubs throughout Chicago, David Grazian shows how this quest for authenticity has transformed the very shape of the blues experience. He explores the ways in which professional and amateur musicians, club owners, and city boosters define authenticity and dish it out to tourists and bar regulars. He also tracks the changing relations between race and the blues over the past several decades, including the increasing frustrations of black musicians forced to slog through the same set of overplayed blues standards for mainly white audiences night after night. In the end, Grazian finds that authenticity lies in the eye of the beholder: a nocturnal fantasy to some, an essential way of life to others, and a frustrating burden to the rest.
"Chicago has given the world distinctive forms of urban blues and urban sociology. . . . In Blue Chicago, David Grazian's lucid and bracingly unpious study of the blues scene, the two homegrown traditions meet with satisfying results."—Carlo Rotella, Chicago Tribune
"Chicago has given the world distinctive forms of urban blues and urban sociology. . . . In Blue Chicago, David Grazian's lucid and bracingly unpious study of the blues scene, the two homegrown traditions meet with satisfying results."—Carlo Rotella, Chicago Tribune
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