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Urban Blues Paperback - 1992

by Charles Keil

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  • Title Urban Blues
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition New
  • Pages 244
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 1992-03-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780226429601
  • ISBN 9780226429601 / 0226429601
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.14 x 5.32 x 0.69 in (20.68 x 13.51 x 1.75 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects African American musicians, Blues (Music) - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91034943
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.643

From the publisher

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 roles-success, 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, Ethnomusicology

"[Keil's] vigorous, aggressive scholarship, lucid style and sparkling analysis stimulate the challenge. Valuable insights come from treating urban blues as artistic communication."-James A. Bonar, Boston Herald

From the rear cover

Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performs and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience.

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About the author

Charles Keil is professor of American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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