Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

by Jack Hamilton

Book Overview

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 Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674416597
• ISBN13: 9780674416598
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.3"