How The Blues Brothers Saved American Music

How The Blues Brothers Saved American Music

By the 1980s, blues and soul music were effectively dead as mainstream cultural forces and the artists who had pioneered those genres were languishing in obscurity. However, this music from America’s past was crying out to be rediscovered and the unlikely agents of its revival were two white comedians: Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. The year 1980 marked a transition in popular music. Disco was on its way out. At the forefront of rock music, there…