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.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword xBruce Iglauer
It Goes a Little Something Like This…: An Introduction
to Blues – Philosophy for Everyone xvi
Jesse R. Steinberg and Abrol Fairweather
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
Joel Rudinow
2 Reclaiming the Aura: B. B. King in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction 16
Ken Ueno
3 Twelve-Bar Zombies: Wittgensteinian Reflections on the
Blues 25
Wade Fox and Richard Greene
4 The Blues as Cultural Expression 38
Philip Jenkins
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
Alan M. Steinberg, Robert S. Pynoos, and Robert
Abramovitz
6 Sadness as Beauty: Why it Feels So Good to Feel So Blue
66
David C. Drake
7 Anguished Art: Coming Through the Dark to the Light the
Hard Way 75
Ben Flanagan and Owen Flanagan
8 Blues and Catharsis 84
Roopen Majithia
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
Brian Domino
10 Doubt and the Human Condition: Nobody Loves Me but my
Momma… and She Might be Jivin‘ Too 111
Jesse R. Steinberg
11 Blues and Emotional Trauma: Blues as Musical Therapy
121
Robert D. Stolorow and Benjamin A. Stolorow
12 Suffering, Spirituality, and Sensuality: Religion and the
Blues 131
Joseph J. Lynch
13 Worrying the Line: Blues as Story, Song, and Prayer
142
Kimberly R. Connor
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
Meghan Winsby
15 Even White Folks Get the Blues 167
Douglas Langston and Nathaniel Langston
16 Distributive History: Did Whites Rip-Off the Blues?
176
Michael Neumann
17 Whose Blues?: Class, Race, and Gender in American
Vernacular Music 191
Ron Bombardi
Philosophical Blues Songs 203
Notes on Contributors 205
Über den Autor
Jesse R. Steinberg is an assistant professor of philosophy and the director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. He has been a visiting professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, at the University of California at Riverside, and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published a number of articles on topics including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics.Abrol Fairweather is an instructor at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco. He has published in the area of Virtue Epistemology and sustains interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. He has contributed to popular culture volumes on Facebook and Dexter. The guitar, vocals, and lyrics of Lightnin‘ Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt are major influences.
Series editor:
Fritz Allhoff is an associate professor in the philosophy department at Western Michigan University, as well as a senior research fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, he is also the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). His academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history and philosophy of science.
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