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The British blues network : adoption, emulation, and creativity

Kellett, Andrew, 1979- author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Subject: Blues (Music) Social aspects Great Britain History 20th century. / Blues (Music) Great Britain History and criticism. / Blues (Music) Influence.
• ISBN: 9780472036998, 9780472130528

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ML3918.B57 K45 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL