Chicagos Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs [Hardcover]

This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the citys 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 Chicagos 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.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.This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the citys 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 Chicagos 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.Examl#'