Steinberg / Fairweather Blues - Philosophy for Everyone

Thinking Deep About Feeling Low
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-15326-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Philosophy for Everyone

The philosophy of the blues
From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only soundsgood, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflection of thetrials and tribulations of everyday life. Its ability to powerfullytouch on a range of social and emotional issues is philosophicallyinspiring, and here, a diverse range of thinkers and musiciansoffer illuminating essays that make important connections betweenthe human condition and the Blues that will appeal to music loversand philosophers alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinberg, Jesse R.

Fairweather, Abrol

Weitere Mitwirkende

Allhoff, Fritz

Iglauer, Bruce

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword x
Bruce Iglauer
It Goes a Little Something Like This...: An Introductionto Blues - Philosophy for Everyone xvi
Jesse R. Steinberg and Abrol Fairweather
Acknowledgments xxviii
PART 1 HOW BLUE IS BLUE? THE METAPHYSICS OF THE BLUES1
1 Talkin' To Myself Again: A Dialogue on the Evolution of theBlues 3
Joel Rudinow
2 Reclaiming the Aura: B. B. King in the Age of MechanicalReproduction 16
Ken Ueno
3 Twelve-Bar Zombies: Wittgensteinian Reflections on theBlues 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 BLUES49
5 The Artistic Transformation of Trauma, Loss, and Adversity inthe Blues 51
Alan M. Steinberg, Robert S. Pynoos, and RobertAbramovitz
6 Sadness as Beauty: Why it Feels So Good to Feel So Blue66
David C. Drake
7 Anguished Art: Coming Through the Dark to the Light theHard 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 NOLUCK AT ALL: BLUES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION 95
9 Why Can't We be Satisfied?: Blues is Knowin' How toCope 97
Brian Domino
10 Doubt and the Human Condition: Nobody Loves Me but myMomma... and She Might be Jivin' Too 111
Jesse R. Steinberg
11 Blues and Emotional Trauma: Blues as Musical Therapy121
Robert D. Stolorow and Benjamin A. Stolorow
12 Suffering, Spirituality, and Sensuality: Religion and theBlues 131
Joseph J. Lynch
13 Worrying the Line: Blues as Story, Song, and Prayer142
Kimberly R. Connor
PART 4 THE BLUE LIGHT WAS MY BABY AND THE RED LIGHT WAS MYMIND: RELIGION AND GENDER IN THE BLUES 153
14 Lady Sings the Blues: A Woman's Perspective onAuthenticity 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 AmericanVernacular Music 191
Ron Bombardi
Philosophical Blues Songs 203
Notes on Contributors 205

Über Autor(innen)

Jesse R. Steinberg is an assistant professor of philosophyand the director of the Environmental Studies Program at theUniversity of Pittsburgh at Bradford. He has been a visitingprofessor at Victoria University in New Zealand, at the Universityof California at Riverside, and at the University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign. He has published a number of articles ontopics including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy ofreligion, and ethics.
Abrol Fairweather is an instructor at San FranciscoState University and the University of San Francisco. He has published in the area of Virtue Epistemology andsustains interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, andphilosophy of language. He has contributed to popular culturevolumes on Facebook and Dexter. The guitar, vocals, and lyrics ofLightnin' Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt are majorinfluences.
Serieseditor:
Fritz Allhoff is an associate professor in the philosophydepartment at Western Michigan University, as well as a seniorresearch fellow at the Australian National University's Centre forApplied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editingthe Philosophy for Everyone series, he is also the volumeeditor 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 variousfacets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history andphilosophy of science.