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- Title
A Blues Aesthetic: Performance Practice, Politics, and History.
- Authors
SIMON, JULIA
- Abstract
Blues has been used as a term to designate a broad musical category, in addition to an aesthetic that includes the visual arts and literature. Reasserting the significance of the blues as a form of Black vernacular music grounds the idea of a blues aesthetic in both a specific history and a performance practice. The genre was shaped by racialized socio-economic conditions that influenced its formal and stylistic components. As a key feature of the blues, repetition delimits a field of creative activity. Despite formal and stylistic constraints, the blues models resistance to domination aesthetically, as the genre challenges the idea of the work of art as a fixed product. Valorizing process, the blues models a practice of resistance to domination using repetition with a difference as a form of agency.
- Subjects
BLUES music; BLUES musicians; MUSICAL composition; MUSIC &; culture; RACISM
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 1, p114
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Article