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100 1 _aMcLoughlin, Shirley Wade,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aA Pedagogy of the Blues /
_cShirley Wade McLoughlin.
264 1 _aLeiden,
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Sense,
_c2009.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aTransgressions: Cultural Studies and Education;
_vv. 38
490 0 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- The Blues – Ontological and Epistemological Considerations -- The Techno-Rational Blues -- Tracing the Blues Metaphor -- Tracing the Blues Metaphor in Alternative Forms of Music -- Pedagogical Implications -- References.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aWith the increasingly techno-rational approach to education causing a sense of hopelessness among educators in both public schools and higher education institutions, alternative pedagogical approaches are needed to provide educators with the means to navigate through oppressive milieus. The author offers her conceptualization of a pedagogy of the blues as such an approach. This work is grounded in the powerful early blues of African Americans, identifying specific themes representative of the blues metaphor that reverberate in the work of early blues artists. Using a predominantly cultural studies lens, the author traces the emergence and evolution of the blues metaphor from pre-slavery Africa’s musical forms to the music of the slaves. She then closely examines the emergence of the blues as a form of popular music in the 1920s. analyzing popular culture representations of the blues artists, historical artifacts, recordings, lyrics of early blues, and other sources of data. From this material, certain themes emerge and are identified as part of the blues metaphor. These themes and their evolution are traced through other forms of popular music, including jazz, country, rhythm and blues, rock, folk, and rap. The author then uses these powerful themes to mold a conceptualization of a pedagogy of the blues, a pedagogical approach that allows educators to hope, to resist, and to transcend the oppressive environments that exist in today’s educational settings.
650 0 _aTeaching
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCurriculum planning
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMusic
_xInstruction and study
_zUnited States
_yHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aBlues (Music)
_yHistory.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tA Pedagogy of the Blues
_dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Sense, 2009,
_z9789087906924
830 0 _aTransgressions: Cultural Studies and Education
_v38.
830 0 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789087906931
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