A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America

ISBN-10
0756758513
ISBN-13
9780756758516
Series
A Change Is Gonna Come
Category
Music
Pages
430
Language
English
Published
1998-07-01
Author
Craig Werner

Description

Chronicles more than 40 years of black music, from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock's "Summer of Love" to the war in Vietnam & the race riots that inspired Marvin Gaye to write "What's Going On"; from the disco inferno to the Million Man March. Chapters: Mahalia Jackson, Motown, & the Movement; The Gospel Impulse; The Blues Impulse; Back Power, Vietnam, & the Death of the Dream; The Jazz Impulse; Disco, Irony, & the Sound of Resistance; Hip-hop, & the Megastars; & In the 90's Mix. Playlist. "Werner writes about music with real spiritual, political, intellectual, & emotional grasp of the whole picture."

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