Talk:Chitlin' Circuit

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The Chitlin' Circuit is also used to describe blues and soul/blues artists who play mostly at small clubs in African-American neighborhoods. The term is still being used today.

Borscht Belt is not related.... no reason to include a link to it

Anyone care to tell me how the expression "chitlin' circuit" and the term Borsht Belt could possibly have anything to do with each other from an etymological standpoint, as the article author suggests? Could someone provide a bona-fide, scholarly-researched explanation as to the connection between the two phrases where one was somehow an expansion on the other? If not, please remove the line making this assumption, or better phrase the sentence so as to not make broad, presumptuous boasting about things that are not real. 99.32.160.175 (talk) 05:10, 15 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Borscht belt is another ethnic performance circuit. There is no other in the U.S. as important as it and Chitlin' Circuit. But who is imitating whom? The Chitlin' Circuit antedates the Borscht Belt. But when did it start to be _called_ Chitlin' Circuit? deisenbe (talk) 15:20, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Chitlin Circuit only South and East?
I've always heard that while the bulk of the circuit was in the south, it was really everywhere. For instance, the Regal Theater in Chicago is often described as part of the circuit.

Psychlist 15:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)Psychlist

Yes, as promoters made money and started to branch out to other theaters in other markets, the chitlin circuit grew and grew. Even in 1998, the gospel stageplays of the late 90's were going strong and showed in Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida, and the South and NorthEast. Promoter CES Agency, aka Baci Management, AKA Performing Arts Productions, Inc. which is now closed due to bankruptcy made their money off of the black stageplays and then brought their promoting talents to broadway tours like Riverdance and concert tours for Maxwell and Prince. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.173.53.120 (talk) 20:13, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Requested move 19 June 2015

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. No additional supports and two opposes after a listing and a relist. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 15:07, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Chitlin' circuit → Chitlin' Circuit – Capitalization rules. It's a proper name. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 05:37, 26 June 2015 (UTC) deisenbe (talk) 12:15, 19 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Why is it a proper name? There doesn't seem to be any particular "circuit".  —  AjaxSmack   02:05, 1 July 2015 (UTC)


 * The Borscht Belt is totally informal, no real "belt", but everyone treats it as a proper name. There doesn't have to be a clearly defined "circuit" for Chitlin' Circuit to be a proper name. If it's not a proper name, "chitlin'" would have to be lower case, and to my knowledge no one does that. deisenbe (talk) 02:52, 1 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose—More serious sources seem to lowercase relatively frequently. Wikipedia tends to lowercase for such subjects.  See this ngram, with "the" there in an attempt to avoid counting book/section headings.  Manual of Style/Capital letters says "Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization"; this would certainly seem to be unnecessary (i.e. either way is "correct"). ErikHaugen (talk &#124; contribs) 15:57, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


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Capitalization of "Circuit"
I have reread WP Style on capitalization and I still think that it should be capitalized. See:
 * Borscht Belt
 * Bible Belt
 * Bible Belt (disambiguation)
 * Corn Belt
 * Cotton Belt
 * Black Belt
 * Numerous other examples at List of belt regions of the United States.

Note the following examples of usage (these came up first after Wikipedia in a search on DuckDuckGo):
 * "Learn about the Chitlin' Circuit and Southern Soul music at SouthernSoulRnB.com." http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/what_is_chitlin_circuit.cfm
 * "Pittsburgh was one of those towns on the Chitlin' Circut". http://www.soul-patrol.com/soul/chitlin.htm
 * "The Royal Peacock in Atlanta was one of the more famous venues on the Chitlin' Circuit." http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/02/16/275313723/the-origin-and-hot-stank-of-the-chitlin-circuit
 * "DEPT. OF DISPUTATION about the Chitlin Circuit, a black theatre circuit" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/02/03/the-chitlin-circuit (The New Yorker is one of the magazines which is most careful about details such as this.)
 * "Top 10 venues on 'Chitlin' Circuit'" http://aaobserveronline.com/?p=93

deisenbe (talk) 09:30, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Ngram update – wbm1058 (talk) 02:10, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keith Shadwick, the author of the source used in the Jimi Hendrix article, uses "chitlin' circuit". However, I'll go along with the consensus, so change as you see fit. —Ojorojo (talk) 14:34, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * While the Ngram shows that sources are trending towards making this a proper name, the sources are still rather mixed, which is why I changed the Chitlin' circuit redirect tag to R from other capitalization. We should only use R from miscapitalization on redirects where sources overwhelmingly favor one single form of capitalization. It's reasonable, in my opinion, to use the form used by the cited source. The move to the proper name was boldly done after the above RM discussion didn't find a consensus for that. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:50, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

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I just made a significant edit to Chitlin Circuit article and we can practice adding cross-links or Wikilinks to this if no one else gets to it before us. The last edit on this article was months ago. It's not a timely or notable subject to most Wikipedians. sheridanford (talk) 18:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)