Blues -- philosophy for everyone
Subtitle: thinking deep about feeling low
By: edited by Jesse R. Steinberg and Abrol Fairweather
Series: Philosophy for everyone
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780470656808
Subjects: Blues (Music); Social aspects; Music and philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How blue is blue? : the metaphysics of the blues. Talkin' to myself again : a dialogue on the evolution of the blues / Joel Rudinow ; Reclaiming the aura : B.B. King in the age of mechanical reproduction / Ken Ueno ; Twelve-bar zombies : Wittgensteinian reflections on the blues / Wade Fox and Richard Greene ; The blues as cultural expression / Philip Jenkins; title: The sky is crying : emotion, upheaval, and the blues. The artistic transformation of trauma, loss, and adversity in the blues / Alan M. Steinberg, Robert S. Pynoos, and Robert Abramovitz ; Sadness as beauty : why it feels so good to feel so blue / David C. Drake ; Anguished art : coming through the dark to the light the hard way / Ben Flanagan and Owen Flanagan ; Blues and catharsis / Roopen Majithia; title: If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all : blues and the human condition. Why can't we be satisfied? : blues is knowin' how to cope / Brian Domino ; Doubt and the human condition : nobody loves me but my momma- and she might be jivin' too / Jesse R. Steinberg ; Blues and emotional trauma : blues as musical therapy / Robert D. Stolorow and Benjamin A. Stolorow ; Suffering, spirituality, and sensuality : religion and the blues / Joseph J. Lynch ; Worrying the line : blues as story, song, and prayer / Kimberly Connor; title: The blue light was my baby and the red light was my mind : religion and gender in the blues. Lady sings the blues : a woman's perspective on authenticity / Meghan Winsby ; Even white folks get the blues / Douglas Langston and Nathaniel Langston ; Distributive history : did whites rip-off the blues? / Michael Neumann ; Whose blues? class, race, and gender in American vernacular music / Ron Bombardi.