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Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

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 | #351811 in Books |  imusti |  2016-09-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.30 x1.00 x5.90l,.0 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

 | Harvard University Press

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||8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| So much of popular music in the US revolves around ...|By Ben|So much of popular music in the US revolves around how listeners and musicians make sense of a defining conflict in American society: race. Hamilton shows how this played out in the production of some of the most memorable music in the country's recorded history. Fantastically written, with astounding new facts and i| |From Little Richard and Chuck Berry to the Dominoes, Ike Turner, and Howlin’ Wolf, rock and roll’s founding figures were African American, yet ‘rock’ as we know and hear it now is coded white…In some of his sharpest passages, Ham

By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans.

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