Just around midnight: rock and roll and the racial imagination

Just around Midnight explores the interplay of popular music and racial thought in the 1960s by asking how, when, and why rock and roll music "became White." By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 the idea of a Black man playing electric lead guitar was considered literally remarkable in wa...

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1. Verfasser: Hamilton, Jack 1979- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Just around Midnight explores the interplay of popular music and racial thought in the 1960s by asking how, when, and why rock and roll music "became White." By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 the idea of a Black man playing electric lead guitar was considered literally remarkable in ways it had not been for Chuck Berry only ten years earlier: this book explains how this happened. By excavating an extraordinarily cosmopolitan aesthetic amidst a far-flung community of artists on both sides of the Atlantic, including Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and others, Just around Midnight offers an interracial counter-history of Sixties music that rejects hermetic ideals of racial authenticity while revealing the pernicious effects of these ideologies on musical understanding....
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:340 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:9780674416598

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