Blues Music in the Sixties : : A Story in Black and White /

Blues Music in the Sixties : : A Story in Black and White / / Ulrich Adelt.

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Can a type of music be "owned"? Examining how music is linked to racial constructs and how African American musicians and audiences reacted to white appropriation, Blues Music in the Sixties shows the stakes when whites claim the right to play and live the blues. In the 1960s, within the l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Adelt, Ulrich,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.) :; 9 illustrations. 9 black and white halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Being Black Twice: Crossover Politics in B. B. King’s Music of the Late 1960s
  • 2. Like I Was a Bear or Somethin’: Blues Performances at the Newport Folk Festival
  • 3. Trying to Find an Identity: Eric Clapton’s Changing Conception of Blackness
  • 4. Germany Gets the Blues: Race and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival
  • 5. Enough to Make You Want to Sing the Blues: Janis Joplin’s Life and Music
  • 6. Resegregating the Blues: Race and Authenticity in the Pages of Living Blues
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • DISCOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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