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Time in the Blues (Hardcover)
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Time in the Blues (Hardcover)
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Spontaneity, immediacy and feeling characterize the blues as a
genre. Whether it's the movement of call and response, the
expressive bends and wails of voice and instruments or the
synergistic relationship between audience and performers, the blues
embody a kind of "living in the moment" aesthetic. At the same
time, the blues genre has always responded in a unique way to its
historical moment, its formal characteristics, figures, and devices
constantly emerging from-and speaking to-the social relations
emanating from Jim Crow segregation, sharecropping, racist
violence, and migration. Time in the Blues presents an
interdisciplinary analysis of the specific forms of temporality
produced by and reflected in the blues. Examining time as it is
represented, enacted, and experienced through the blues,
interdisciplinary scholar Julia Simon addresses how the material
conditions in the early twentieth century shaped a musical genre.
The technical aspects of the blues-ostinato patterns, cyclical
changes, improvisation, call and response-emerge from and speak to
the Jim Crow era's economic, social, and political relations.
Through this temporal analysis, Simon addresses how the
moment-to-moment aspect of time in blues performance relates to the
genre's location within historical time, with careful examinations
of the historical performance and reception of blues music from the
1920s to the present day. Simon examines the structuring of time,
and analyzes temporality to open the broader questions of desire,
agency, self-definition, faith, and forms of resistance as they are
articulated in this music. Ultimately, Time in the Blues, argues
for the relevance, significance, and importance of time in the
blues for shared values of community and a vision of social
justice.
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