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ISBN10: 0226429601, ISBN13: 9780226429601, [publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL] Softcover Paperback. Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and rolessuccess, strong egos, and close ties to the community. While writing Urban Blues in the mid-1960s, Keil optimistically saw this cultural expression as contributing to the rising tide of raised political consciousness in Afro-America. His new Afterword examines black music in the context of capitalism and black culture in the context of worldwide trends toward diversification. "Enlightening. . . . [Keil] has given a provocative indication of the role of the blues singer as a focal point of ghetto community expression."John S. Wilson, New York Times Book Review "A terribly valuable book and a powerful one. . . . Keil is an original thinker and . . . has offered us a major breakthrough."Studs Terkel, Chicago Tribune "[Urban Blues] expresses authentic concern for people who are coming to realize that their past was . . . the source of meaningful cultural values."Atlantic "An achievement of the first magnitude. . . . He opens our eyes and introduces a world of amazingly complex musical happening."Robert Farris Thompson, ...

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ISBN10: 0226429601, ISBN13: 9780226429601, [publisher: University of Chicago Press] Softcover &Uumlber den AutorCharles Keil is professor of American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.KlappentextrnrnCharles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performs and stresses the int.
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ISBN10: 0226429601, ISBN13: 9780226429601, [publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL] Hardcover Original light blue cloth in fine, if not slightly better, condition both externally and internally. Introduction, notes, illus., appendices, index, 231p. A critical examination of male African-American music by such noted singers as Bobby Bland, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, and others. Rather scarce in this hardcover edition.
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