Just around midnight : rock and roll and the racial imagination / Jack Hamilton.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016Description: 340 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674416598 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Rock music -- Social aspects | Rock music -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism | Music and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Music and race -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | African American rock musicians | Music | MusicDDC classification: 781.6'6'09046 Summary: 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 10 years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become 'white'? This title 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. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic - and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, Jack Hamilton underscores how ideas of 'authenticity' have blinded us to rock's inextricably interracial artistic enterprise.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 10 years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become 'white'? This title 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. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic - and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, Jack Hamilton underscores how ideas of 'authenticity' have blinded us to rock's inextricably interracial artistic enterprise.
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