Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs

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Synopsis

This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city’s South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia are experiencing a new redevelopment machine: one of tyrannizing and fear. Its actors are adroit at working via the creation of fear to “terror-redevelop” in these historically neglected neighborhoods. The book also discusses the powerful race and class-based politics in Chicago’s blues clubs that resist such change. A “leisure as resistance” framework represents the latest innovative form of opposition to the transformation of these historic sites.

Book details

Author:
David Wilson
ISBN:
9783319708188
Related ISBNs:
9783319708171
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2018-03-06
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
David Wilson 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Earth Sciences, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Sociology