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

by Stuart Cosgrove

This is the untold story of black music - its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalized 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846975840
• ISBN13: 9781846975844
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Polygon
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"