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Published · transcript-backedTed Gioia: belief
6 Nov 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
“I think that you look at the blues, and it’s definitely a music of anguish and tragedy and personal suffering.”
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- Ted Gioia
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- belief
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- 6 Nov 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Are prosperity, peacetime, and racial integration bad for the blues? Well, that’s a big question. I think that you look at the blues, and it’s definitely a music of anguish and tragedy and personal suffering. But from a completely different point of view, the blues did other things as well. It broadened our musical techniques, and also, it was a music of lifestyle values. I tend to think that the blues anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s. All the things that were sung about in blues music in the 1920s were about these lifestyle excesses that didn’t reach mainstream society for 40, 50 years. But we had them in the ’20s too, right? The ’30s are sexually more conservative than the ’20s had been, it seems.…
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