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Adelt, Ulrich . "Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 1960s," University of Iowa, December 2007.
My dissertation, entitled “Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 1960s,” is a foray into blues music’s intricate web of racial taxonomies, an aspect that has been neglected by most existing studies of the genre. In particular, I am interested in significant changes that took place in the 1960s under which blues was reconfigured from “black” to “white” in its production and reception while simultaneously retaining a notion of authenticity that remained deeply connected with constructions of “blackness.” In the larger context of the Civil Rights movement and the burgeoning counterculture, audiences for blues music became increasingly “white” and European. In their romantic embrace of a poverty of choice, white audiences and performers engaged in discourses of authenticity and in the commodification, racialization and gendering of sounds and images as well as in the confluence of blues music’s class origins. Individual chapters focus on key figures, events and institutions that exemplify blues music’s racial politics and transnational movements of the 1960s, including B.B. King, the Newport Folk Festival, Living Blues magazine, Eric Clapton, and the American Folk Blues Festival in Germany.
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