In this Book
- The British Blues Network: Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
summary
Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-American blues music, using blues tropes in their own music and creating a network of admirers and emulators that spanned the Atlantic. This cross-fertilization helped create a commercially successful rock idiom that gave rise to some of the most famous British groups of the era, including The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, and Led Zeppelin. What empowered these white, middle-class British men to identify with and claim aspects of the musical idiom of African-American blues musicians? The British Blues Network examines the role of British narratives of masculinity and power in the postwar era of decolonization and national decline that contributed to the creation of this network, and how its members used the tropes, vocabulary, and mythology of African-American blues traditions to forge their own musical identities.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780472123209
Related ISBN(s)
9780472036998, 9780472130528
MARC Record
OCLC
1005225193
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2017-10-07
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017