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Jesse R. Steinberg & Abrol Fairweather 
Blues – Philosophy for Everyone 
Thinking Deep About Feeling Low

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The 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. Its ability to powerfully
touch on a range of social and emotional issues is philosophically
inspiring, and here, a diverse range of thinkers and musicians
offer illuminating essays that make important connections between
the human condition and the Blues that will appeal to music lovers
and philosophers alike.
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Table of Content

Foreword x

Bruce Iglauer

It Goes a Little Something Like This…: An Introduction
to Blues – Philosophy for Everyone xvi

Jesse R. Steinberg and Abrol Fairweather

Acknowledgments xxviii

PART 1 HOW BLUE IS BLUE? THE METAPHYSICS OF THE BLUES
1

1 Talkin’ To Myself Again: A Dialogue on the Evolution of the
Blues 3

Joel Rudinow

2 Reclaiming the Aura: B. B. King in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction 16

Ken Ueno

3 Twelve-Bar Zombies: Wittgensteinian Reflections on the
Blues 25

Wade Fox and Richard Greene

4 The Blues as Cultural Expression 38

Philip Jenkins

PART 2 THE SKY IS CRYING: EMOTION, UPHEAVAL, AND THE BLUES
49

5 The Artistic Transformation of Trauma, Loss, and Adversity in
the Blues 51

Alan M. Steinberg, Robert S. Pynoos, and Robert
Abramovitz

6 Sadness as Beauty: Why it Feels So Good to Feel So Blue
66

David C. Drake

7 Anguished Art: Coming Through the Dark to the Light the
Hard Way 75

Ben Flanagan and Owen Flanagan

8 Blues and Catharsis 84

Roopen Majithia

PART 3 IF IT WEREN’T FOR BAD LUCK, I WOULDN’T HAVE NO
LUCK AT ALL: BLUES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION 95

9 Why Can’t We be Satisfied?: Blues is Knowin’ How to
Cope 97

Brian Domino

10 Doubt and the Human Condition: Nobody Loves Me but my
Momma… and She Might be Jivin’ Too 111

Jesse R. Steinberg

11 Blues and Emotional Trauma: Blues as Musical Therapy
121

Robert D. Stolorow and Benjamin A. Stolorow

12 Suffering, Spirituality, and Sensuality: Religion and the
Blues 131

Joseph J. Lynch

13 Worrying the Line: Blues as Story, Song, and Prayer
142

Kimberly R. Connor

PART 4 THE BLUE LIGHT WAS MY BABY AND THE RED LIGHT WAS MY
MIND: RELIGION AND GENDER IN THE BLUES 153

14 Lady Sings the Blues: A Woman’s Perspective on
Authenticity 155

Meghan Winsby

15 Even White Folks Get the Blues 167

Douglas Langston and Nathaniel Langston

16 Distributive History: Did Whites Rip-Off the Blues?
176

Michael Neumann

17 Whose Blues?: Class, Race, and Gender in American
Vernacular Music 191

Ron Bombardi

Philosophical Blues Songs 203

Notes on Contributors 205

About the author

Jesse R. Steinberg is an assistant professor of philosophy and the director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. He has been a visiting professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, at the University of California at Riverside, and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published a number of articles on topics including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics.

Abrol Fairweather is an instructor at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco. He has published in the area of Virtue Epistemology and sustains interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. He has contributed to popular culture volumes on Facebook and Dexter. The guitar, vocals, and lyrics of Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt are major influences.

Series editor:

Fritz Allhoff is an associate professor in the philosophy department at Western Michigan University, as well as a senior research fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, he is also the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). His academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history and philosophy of science.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 248 ● ISBN 9781118153253 ● File size 3.0 MB ● Editor Jesse R. Steinberg & Abrol Fairweather ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2011 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2941301 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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