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Chicagos Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs
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The book explores the redevelopment conflict in Chicago's South Side blues clubs, highlighting a broader trend observed in cities like Cleveland and St. Louis. It delves into the tactics of fear employed by redevelopment actors to exert control over historically neglected neighborhoods. Additionally, it examines the race and class dynamics within the blues clubs that challenge this transformation, introducing the concept of "leisure as resistance" as a novel form of opposition to the erasure of these cultural landmarks.
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Chicagos Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs, David Gordon Wilson
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Chicagos Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs
- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Gordon Wilson
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN13
- 9783319889962
- Category
- Social sciences, Geography / Topography
- Description
- The book explores the redevelopment conflict in Chicago's South Side blues clubs, highlighting a broader trend observed in cities like Cleveland and St. Louis. It delves into the tactics of fear employed by redevelopment actors to exert control over historically neglected neighborhoods. Additionally, it examines the race and class dynamics within the blues clubs that challenge this transformation, introducing the concept of "leisure as resistance" as a novel form of opposition to the erasure of these cultural landmarks.