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The Blues Tradition: Building Dialogical Relation within Utopian Imaginaries

In: Imagine, Studying the Relationship between Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and Imaginary in the Era of Capitalocene

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  • Laigha YOUNG

    (Centre for Cooperative Studies, University College Cork, Ireland)

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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.

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  • Laigha YOUNG, 2024. "The Blues Tradition: Building Dialogical Relation within Utopian Imaginaries," CIRIEC Studies Series, in: Alexandrine LAPOUTTE & Timothée DUVERGER & Eric DACHEUX & CIRIEC (ed.), Imagine, Studying the Relationship between Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and Imaginary in the Era of Capitalocene, volume 6, chapter 7, pages 107-131, CIRIEC - Université de Liège.
    • Handle: RePEc:crc:chapte:6-07
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    Keywords

    axiology; alter-collectivities; utopian method; assemblage theory; blues music; co-operative economics;
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    JEL classification:

    • P13 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Cooperative Enterprises
    • J54 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values

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