Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House

Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House
ISBN-10
1788855191
ISBN-13
9781788855198
Category
Music
Pages
409
Language
English
Published
2022-08-04
Publisher
Birlinn Ltd
Author
Stuart Cosgrove

Description

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.

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