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Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. David Wilson

    1. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

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  • Examines the redevelopment of Chicago against larger national trends

  • Looks at the broader implications of gentrification in America

  • Exposes the realities of urban renewal and redevelopment programs

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Prologue

    • David Wilson
    Pages 1-6

  3. Chicago, Redevelopment Machines, and Local Blues Clubs

    • David Wilson
    Pages 7-37

  4. The Frame: The Post-2000 Redevelopment Machine

    • David Wilson
    Pages 39-68

  5. The Machine: South Side Blues Club Interplay—2000 to Present

    • David Wilson
    Pages 69-120

  6. South Side Blues Clubs: The Current Transformation

    • David Wilson
    Pages 121-159

  7. Conclusion: Redevelopment Along the Frontier

    • David Wilson
    Pages 161-172

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 173-208
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    David Wilson

About the author

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.



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