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[Jack Hamilton] Ø Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination Challenge the categories and assumptions we've made regarding our favorite musicians from the 1960s! Amazon Customer This book did a great job of placing some of my favorite 1960's musicians in their own complicated and changing times. Even more, it helped me think more deeply about the most commonly accepted stories that music fans have told ourselves about the race and artistic decisions of these icons. It is full of provoking anecdotes that give insight into how the musicians themselves thoug
| Title | : | Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674416597 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
Challenge the categories and assumptions we've made regarding our favorite musicians from the 1960s! Amazon Customer This book did a great job of placing some of my favorite 1960's musicians in their own complicated and changing times. Even more, it helped me think more deeply about the most commonly accepted stories that music fans have told ourselves about the race and artistic decisions of these icons. It is full of provoking anecdotes that give insight into how the musicians themselves thought of themselves and their work, which often challenges how we
Jack Hamilton is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
The bar has been raised. For anyone who remains easily seduced by the romance of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame canon-building, this book is a necessary read. (Adam Ellsworth Arts Fuse 2016-09-27) . (Emily Lordi, University of Massachusetts Amherst)Extraordinary…Hamilton doesn’t pretend to have all the answers in Just around Midnight but he asks all the right questions. (Josh Kun, University of Southern California)As musically detailed as it is theoretically expansive, Just around Midnight reveals that popular music of the 1960s was defined by more vibrant interracial collaborations and more violent anti-black erasures than we could have imagined. (Daphne Brooks, Yale University)This new listening to the black-and-white racial politics
Juxtaposing Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, and many others, Hamilton challenges the racial categories that oversimplified the sixties revolution and provides a deeper appreciation of the twists and turns that kept the music alive.. 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.Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted liste
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