Chitlin’ Circuit: Blues Culture and American Culture
An exploration into how Blues and American culture intersect and develop.
The Chitlin Circuit refers to a wide degree of venues in which African-American singers, music, and performances were predominantly designated.
Preston Lauterbach’s description of various anecdotes, short stories, and experiences in his work The Chitlin’ Circuit regarding these black performers in their daily lives gives us insight into how such a culture arose to begin with.
Often, blues and similar genres of African American music were representative of the changing social conditions African Americans experienced as they moved to new areas in the nation and acclimated. In addition, the influence of this music and culture on integrating the black and white races as well as its pertinence to the civil rights movement of the 20th century will be a subject of exploration.
Here, we’ll consider the lives and music of a few major, influential characters responsible for running the Chitlin’ Circuit, maintaining its business, and growing its impact on blues culture.
This review asserts that the creation and incorporation of blues culture and music into the more general American culture may have contributed to relaxing the attitudes regarding segregation between whites and blacks, now…
