Just around Midnight : : Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination / / Jack Hamilton.
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 ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 3 halftones, 5 music illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Dreams and Nightmares
- 1. Darkness at the Break of Noon
- 2. The White Atlantic
- 3. “Friends Across the Sea”
- 4. “Being Good isn’t Always Easy”
- 5. House Burning Down
- 6. Just Around Midnight
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index