Urban Blues
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Urban Blues

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Urban Blues

About this book

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
 

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INDEX
Abrahams, Roger D.: Deep Down in the Jungle, 20–23, 26–28
Ace, Johnny, 66
Advertisements for Myself (Mailer), 9
“African Influence on the Music of the Americas” (Waterman), 31
Ah Wants to Sell My Monkey, 71
Ain’t That Lovin’ You? 129, 132–33
Alabama Bound, 58
Alinsky, Saul, 14
American Dilemma, An: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Myrdal), 29
Anthropology of Music, The (Merriam), 31
Armstrong, Louis, 47, 169, 178
“Art of Folk Blues Guitar, The” (Welding), 60
Autry, Gene, 107
Baby, You Lost Your Good Thing Now, 99
Back Door Man, 188
Baez, Joan, 37
Bailey, Dave, 200
Baker, La Vern, 56
Baldwin, James, 17, 189, 194; Blues for Mr. Charlie, 190; Go Tell It on the Mountain, 28
Bales, Robert F.: Interaction Process Analysis: A Method for the Study of Small Groups, 71–73
Basie, Count, 65–66
Bass, Ralph, 100
Beatles, 49, 94
Beck, Jimmy, 116
Beiderbecke, Bix, 47
Bennett, Lerone, 175, 194
Bennett, Tony, 160, 178
Bennett, Wayne, 116
Benton, Brook, 158
Berger, Monroe: “Jazz: Resistance to the Diffusion of a Culture Pattern,” 31
Berry, Chuck, 64, 85, 140, 158
Beyond the Melting Pot (Glazer and Moynihan), 6
Big Bill Blues: William Broonzy’s Story as Told to Yannick Bruynoghe (Broonzy), 65
Big Maybelle, 56
Bishop, Elvin, 47
Black Bourgeoisie (Frazier), 7
Black Metropolis (Cayton and Drake), 18–20
Black Muslims, 3, 8, 186, 192
Blackwell, Scrapper, 65, 208
Blakey, Art, 64
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Author’s note
  6. Preface
  7. Illustrations
  8. Contents
  9. Introduction
  10. I. Afro-American Music
  11. II. Blues Styles: An Historical Sketch
  12. III. Fattening Frogs for Snakes?
  13. IV. B. B. King Backstage
  14. V. Big Bobby Blue Bland on Stage
  15. VI. Role and Response
  16. VII. Soul and Solidarity
  17. VIII. Alternatives
  18. Appendix A. The Identity Problem
  19. Appendix B. Talking About Music
  20. Appendix C. Blues Styles: An Annotated Outline
  21. Notes
  22. Afterword: Postscripts
  23. Index