jpTwo “deal with the Blues Devil” movies, two very different problems. Crossroads wants to prove anyone can play the blues but ends up flattening what the blues actually stands for. The Devil Comes to Kansas City, on the other hand, can’t even keep its own rules straight.
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The Myth of the Crossroads: Faustian Bargains, Cultural Appropriation, and the Narratological Erosion of the Blues in Modern Cinema
The legend of the crossroads — a site where the mundane meets the metaphysical and where musical mastery is purchased at the cost of the immortal soul — stands as the preeminent myth of American mu…