Just Around Midnight
Subtitle: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
By: Jack Hamilton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780674416598
Subjects: Rock music; African American rock musicians; Music and race; Social aspects; History and criticism; History
Other titles: Rock and roll and the racial imagination
Description: Explores the interplay of popular music and racial thought in the 1960s by asking how, when, and why rock and roll music "became white."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Dreams and nightmares; title: Darkness at the break of noon : Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan and the birth of sixties music; title: The white Atlantic : cultural origins of the "British invasion"; title: "Friends across the sea" : Motown, the Beatles, and sites and sounds of crossover; title: "Being good isn't always easy" : Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Dusty Springfield, and the color of soul; title: House burning down : race, rock writing, and Jimi Hendrix's war; title: Just around midnight : the Rolling Stones and the end of the sixties.