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Blues - Philosophy for Everyone
Thinking Deep About Feeling Low
Fritz Allhoff (Series edited by), Jesse R. Steinberg (Edited by), Abrol Fairweather (Edited by), Bruce Iglauer (Foreword by)
9780470656808, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 23 December 2011
256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.386 kg
“Blues – Philosophy for Everyone provides illuminating essays from this philosophy of the blues. It brings together intriguing insights into the connection between the blues and philosophy that will appeal to music lovers and philosophers alike.” (SirReadaLot.org, 1 February 2012) “Blues? Philosophy? Ludwig Wittgenstein as the Hoochie Koochie man? Why not? There's a crossover: blues and philosophy both exist to make sense of it all, to find meaning in the vicissitudes of living. Leading the fly out of the fly bottle doesn't have to end up as a treatise, it can also end up as a song. As this book forms one the Philosophy for Everyone series, with titles such as Cannabis -- What Were We Just Talking About? or Dating -- Flirting With Big Ideas, we know that it is not going to be too po-faced in its approach to putting this popular art form under the philosophical lens. And if the other books in this series are as good as this one, then I'll be searching them out, too ... The writing here is of a high order and the essays yield insights galore about the blues in its social, historical and cultural contexts and its personal and universal appeal.” (Metapsychology Online Reviews, 27 April 2012)
The philosophy of the blues From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only sounds good, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflection of the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Its ability to powerfully touch on a range of social and emotional issues is philosophically inspiring, and here, a diverse range of thinkers and musicians offer illuminating essays that make important connections between the human condition and the Blues that will appeal to music lovers and philosophers alike.
Foreword x It Goes a Little Something Like This…: An Introduction to Blues – Philosophy for Everyone xvi Acknowledgments xxviii PART 1 HOW BLUE IS BLUE? THE METAPHYSICS OF THE BLUES 1 1 Talkin' To Myself Again: A Dialogue on the Evolution of the Blues 3 2 Reclaiming the Aura: B. B. King in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 16 3 Twelve-Bar Zombies: Wittgensteinian Reflections on the Blues 25 4 The Blues as Cultural Expression 38 PART 2 THE SKY IS CRYING: EMOTION, UPHEAVAL, AND THE BLUES 49 5 The Artistic Transformation of Trauma, Loss, and Adversity in the Blues 51 6 Sadness as Beauty: Why it Feels So Good to Feel So Blue 66 7 Anguished Art: Coming Through the Dark to the Light the Hard Way 75 8 Blues and Catharsis 84 PART 3 IF IT WEREN’T FOR BAD LUCK, I WOULDN'T HAVE NO LUCK AT ALL: BLUES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION 95 9 Why Can't We be Satisfied?: Blues is Knowin’ How to Cope 97 10 Doubt and the Human Condition: Nobody Loves Me but my Momma… and She Might be Jivin' Too 111 11 Blues and Emotional Trauma: Blues as Musical Therapy 121 12 Suffering, Spirituality, and Sensuality: Religion and the Blues 131 13 Worrying the Line: Blues as Story, Song, and Prayer 142 PART 4 THE BLUE LIGHT WAS MY BABY AND THE RED LIGHT WAS MY MIND: RELIGION AND GENDER IN THE BLUES 153 14 Lady Sings the Blues: A Woman’s Perspective on Authenticity 155 15 Even White Folks Get the Blues 167 16 Distributive History: Did Whites Rip-Off the Blues? 176 17 Whose Blues?: Class, Race, and Gender in American Vernacular Music 191 Philosophical Blues Songs 203 Notes on Contributors 205
Bruce Iglauer
Jesse R. Steinberg and Abrol Fairweather
Joel Rudinow
Ken Ueno
Wade Fox and Richard Greene
Philip Jenkins
Alan M. Steinberg, Robert S. Pynoos, and Robert Abramovitz
David C. Drake
Ben Flanagan and Owen Flanagan
Roopen Majithia
Brian Domino
Jesse R. Steinberg
Robert D. Stolorow and Benjamin A. Stolorow
Joseph J. Lynch
Kimberly R. Connor
Meghan Winsby
Douglas Langston and Nathaniel Langston
Michael Neumann
Ron Bombardi
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
