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Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House
Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House
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The untold story of black music's triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalized record labels, media discrimination, and political anxiety is told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world in Hey America! It charts the evolution of sixties soul from the margins of American society to the mainstream, culminating in the rise of urban hip-hop and the dramatic stand-off between Donald Trump and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 04 August 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
This is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong's spat with President Eisenhower and Eartha Kitt's stormy encounter with Lady Bird Johnson to James Brown's flirtation with Nixon, Reaganomics and the 'Cop Killer' scandal.
Moving, insightful and wide-ranging, Hey America! charts the evolution of sixties soul from the margins of American society to the mainstream, culminating in the rise of urban hip-hop and the dramatic stand-off between Donald Trump and the Black Lives Matter movement.Â
Weight: 678g
Dimension: 162 x 244 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781846975844
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