The Blues Tradition: Building Dialogical Relation within Utopian Imaginaries

Laigha Young ()
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Laigha Young: Centre for Cooperative Studies, University College Cork, Ireland

Chapter 7 in Imagine, Studying the Relationship between Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and Imaginary in the Era of Capitalocene, 2024, vol. 6, pp 107-131 from CIRIEC - Université de Liège

Abstract: The Blues, as a countercultural art form, has engendered dialogical consciousness – both in terms of production practices and the creation of broader relational ontologies. This conceptual investigation explores the Blues genre as an “axiology-in-practice” within African American alter-collectivities. Using imaginary reconstitution as a utopian method of analysis, and assemblage theory as a medium of musical understanding, the following piece investigates everyday utopias within Blues production. These everyday utopias have reverberating materializations within Black socioeconomic spaces. With the integral nature of dialogical art forms in crafting cooperative consciousness and collective survivance, the epistemology of the Blues genre becomes the foundation to an embodied ethical economic practice.

Keywords: axiology; alter-collectivities; utopian method; assemblage theory; blues music; co-operative economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 J54 P13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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