Just around midnight : rock and roll and the racial imagination /

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 Midnigh...

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Author / Creator: Hamilton, Jack, 1979-
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Dreams and Nightmares
  • 1. Darkness at the Break of Noon: Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, and the Birth of Sixties Music
  • 2. The White Atlantic: Cultural Origins of the "British Invasion"
  • 3. "Friends Across the Sea": Motown, the Beatles, and Sites and Sounds of Crossover
  • 4. "Being Good Isn't Always Easy": Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Dusty Springfield, and the Color of Soul
  • 5. House Burning Down: Race, Writing, and Jimi Hendrix's War
  • 6. Just Around Midnight: The Rolling Stones and the End of the Sixties
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits
  • Index