- Mass Market Paperback: 430 pages
- Publisher: New American Library (14 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0452280656
- ISBN-13: 978-0452280656
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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This work 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 and the "Summer of Love" to Vietnam and the race riots; from disco inferno to the Million Man March.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Craig Werner takes us on a lively guided tour of American popular music over the past several decades, focusing on how this music reflects--and promises, in a certain sense, to heal--the enduring racial chasm in American life. It is funny, tragic, and always engaging. The writing is often brilliant and always to the point. This is probably the best book about American music that I have ever read. Werner does such an excellent job, not only writing about the music itself, which he does with remarkable clarity and intelligence, but in placing the music in the historical context from which it emerged. This would be a great book for 20th century American history courses, courses about the 1960s, courses about African American history and culture. This is a book about the soundtrack of our lives, and how it speaks to the lasting dilemmas of race.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I was going to give this a 4 star - very good but flawed review. But sitting in a pub in Brentford (West London) listening to a middle aged white guitarist giving his own take in Hendrix version of Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower - it all made sense. Werners main theme is 'call and response' how one generation of musicians responds to another - it can seem a bit academic in the text but makes sense when you listen to the music and it all makes sense.
If this book has a flaw it is just that there is too much to cram into 441 pages, at times it seems rushed. Someone should give him the money to put it pout as a 4 volume set.
If you love the music of the late 20th century you must read this book
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This could have been called: Everything you always wanted to know 'bout black-music but were afraid to ask. This is a staggering history of black music's fight to desegregate popular music and popularise the struggle for equality not only in the courtrooms and universities but also in the charts and recording studios of America. You get the breaks between Motown and Def Jam, the response to Gospel from Jazz, and the reflection of Screamin' Jay Hawkins from Disco. This is a thorough flick through the largest collection of tunes, anecdotes and attitude on record. And when you finally have the courage to put it down you will continue the struggle by wanting to buy your own piece of history in the form of every gospel, jazz and soul record ever released! This is nourishment for the eyes, the intellect and the soul. Buy it and be redeemed and eventually skint!
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