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.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783319708188
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783319708171
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 03/06/18
- Copyrighted By:
- David Wilson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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