Thinking about the Blues: Authenticity

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Thinking about the BluesAuthenticity
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Wade on Authenticity (p.140)faithfulness to
ones essential natureHow can music be
authentic?
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What is the essential nature of the
blues?How does this relate to the blues
lifestyle that Lieberfeld discusses?
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Performance contexts for the bluesHow did guys
like Robert Johnson make money?
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Some extra cash through recordingsBeginning in
the 1920s,Race Records hit the shelves
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Okeh record catalog, 1924
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1922 1924
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1922
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Black musicians in the early 20th century made
most of their money performing.Where did they
play?
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Juke Jointssmall eating, drinking, and dancing
establishments
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Gainesvilles Cotton Club837 SE 7th
Ave.operated in the late 1940slater renamed the
Blue Note Clubhosted B.B. King, Ray Charles, and
others
One of many venues throughout the South where
black musicians could perform often referred to
as the Chitlin Circuit
What is the significance of the name?
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• Harlems Cotton Club
• Black musicians, but not patrons
• Opened in 1923, closed in 1940
• Launched careers of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway,
  Lena Horne, and many others.

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House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC
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Atlantic City
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The first House of Blues in Cambridge, MA Closed
in 2003
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What do the Blues Brothers and the House of Blues
represent?How do they represent it?