{"product_id":"blues-philosophy-for-everyone-9780470656808","title":"Blues  Philosophy for Everyone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Blues – Philosophy for Everyone provides illuminating essays from this philosophy of the blues.  It brings together intriguing insights into the connection between the blues and philosophy that will appeal to music lovers and philosophers alike.”  (\u003ci\u003eSirReadaLot.org\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 February 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Blues? Philosophy? Ludwig Wittgenstein as the Hoochie Koochie man?  Why not? There's a crossover: blues and philosophy both exist to make sense of it all, to find meaning in the vicissitudes of living. Leading the fly out of the fly bottle doesn't have to end up as a treatise, it can also end up as a song.  As this book forms one the Philosophy for Everyone series, with titles such as \u003ci\u003eCannabis -- What Were We Just Talking About?\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eDating -- Flirting With Big Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, we know that it is not going to be too po-faced in its approach to putting this popular art form under the philosophical lens. And if the other books in this series are as good as this one, then I'll be searching them out, too ... The writing here is of a high order and the essays yield insights galore about the blues in its social, historical and cultural contexts and its personal and universal appeal.”  (\u003ci\u003eMetapsychology Online Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 27 April 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword x\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBruce Iglauer\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt Goes a Little Something Like This…: \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Blues – Philosophy for Everyone\u003c\/i\u003e xvi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJesse R. Steinberg and Abrol Fairweather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 1 HOW BLUE IS BLUE? THE METAPHYSICS OF THE BLUES 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Talkin' To Myself Again: \u003ci\u003eA Dialogue on the Evolution of the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoel Rudinow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Reclaiming the Aura: \u003ci\u003eB. B. King in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e 16\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKen Ueno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Twelve-Bar Zombies: \u003ci\u003eWittgensteinian Reflections on the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e 25\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWade Fox and Richard Greene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Blues as Cultural Expression 38\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 2 THE SKY IS CRYING: EMOTION, UPHEAVAL, AND THE BLUES 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Artistic Transformation of Trauma, Loss, and Adversity in the Blues 51\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlan M. Steinberg, Robert S. Pynoos, and Robert Abramovitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Sadness as Beauty: \u003ci\u003eWhy it Feels So Good to Feel So Blue\u003c\/i\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid C. Drake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Anguished Art: \u003ci\u003eComing Through the Dark to the Light the Hard Way\u003c\/i\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBen Flanagan and Owen Flanagan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Blues and Catharsis 84\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoopen Majithia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 3 IF IT WEREN’T FOR BAD LUCK, I WOULDN'T HAVE NO LUCK AT ALL: BLUES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION 95\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Why Can't We be Satisfied?: \u003ci\u003eBlues is Knowin’ How to Cope\u003c\/i\u003e 97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian Domino\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Doubt and the Human Condition: \u003ci\u003eNobody Loves Me but my Momma… and She Might be Jivin' Too\u003c\/i\u003e 111\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJesse R. Steinberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Blues and Emotional Trauma: \u003ci\u003eBlues as Musical Therapy\u003c\/i\u003e 121\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert D. Stolorow and Benjamin A. Stolorow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Suffering, Spirituality, and Sensuality: \u003ci\u003eReligion and the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e 131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoseph J. Lynch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Worrying the Line: \u003ci\u003eBlues as Story, Song, and Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKimberly R. Connor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 4 THE BLUE LIGHT WAS MY BABY AND THE RED LIGHT WAS MY MIND: RELIGION AND GENDER IN THE BLUES 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Lady Sings the Blues: \u003ci\u003eA Woman’s Perspective on Authenticity\u003c\/i\u003e 155\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeghan Winsby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Even White Folks Get the Blues 167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglas Langston and Nathaniel Langston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Distributive History: \u003ci\u003eDid Whites Rip-Off the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e? 176\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Neumann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Whose Blues?: \u003ci\u003eClass, Race, and Gender in American Vernacular Music\u003c\/i\u003e 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRon Bombardi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophical Blues Songs 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors 205\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402390020439,"sku":"9780470656808","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470656808.jpg?v=1730480253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blues-philosophy-for-everyone-9780470656808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}