Iggy's Blues
In the late 1960s, many white rock and roll bands were engaged in playing popular music that closely emulated the blues. Focuses on Iggy Pop, who was and is the singer for the Stooges, a band from Ann Arbor who existed from 1967 to 1974 and who have recently reunited. Iggy's blues are marked in...
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| Published in: | Journal of popular music studies 2007-05, Vol.19 (2), p.133-156 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | In the late 1960s, many white rock and roll bands were engaged in playing popular music that closely emulated the blues. Focuses on Iggy Pop, who was and is the singer for the Stooges, a band from Ann Arbor who existed from 1967 to 1974 and who have recently reunited. Iggy's blues are marked in two ways which differentiate them from the African-American tradition: the approach to technology and the quality of belonging. Iggy inverts the false binary of blues-into-rock, of black primitivism and white technology. Iggy turns the use of technology into a white primitivism and so-called black primitivism into a technical blueprint. (Quotes from original text) |
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| ISSN: | 1524-2226 1533-1598 |