Chitlin’ Circuit
Chitlin’ Circuit
The “Chitlin’ Circuit” was the corporate name given to the string of performance scenes throughout the eastern and southern United States that were safe and satisfactory for African American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers to perform during the age of racial segregation in the US. The name obtains from the soul food item chitterlings and is also a play on the term “Borscht belt” which denoted to a group of venues
The “Chitlin’ Circuit,” similar to “Tin Pan Alley” and “Motown” and other legendary music locations, is both a real and symbolic term for the on-and-off-again venues–shoebox-sized bars, clubs, cafes and increasingly in the 21st century, casinos– that support traditional rhythm and blues in a flimsy but tenacious thread by America’s generally rural Bible Belt.
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