Just Around Midnight - Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Jack Hamilton is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Klappentext When Jimi Hendrix died, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier, Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution. Zusammenfassung When Jimi Hendrix died! the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier! Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Hamilton, Hamilton Jack
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2016
• EAN: 9780674416598
• ISBN: 978-0-674-41659-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Rock, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / History & Criticism, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Music: styles and genres, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Music: styles & genres, Social Discrimination