Chicago's Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs

ISBN-13: 9783319708171 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

David Wilson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Setting the Stage: Chicago, Redevelopment Machines, Blues Clubs

3. The Frame: Chicago's Redevelopment Machine across Chicago, 2000-Present

4. The Machine: South Side Blues-scape Interplay: 2000-Present

5. South Side Blues Clubs: The Current Transformation

6. Chicago's Redevelopment Reality along the Frontier

O autorze

David Wilson is Professor of Geography, Urban Planning, African American Studies, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Blurb

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.