Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music

by Ronald Radano

Book Overview

What is black music? For some it is a unique expression of the African-American experience, its soulful vocals and stirring rhythms forged in the fires of black resistance in response to centuries of oppression. But as Ronald Radano argues in this bracing work, the whole idea of black music has a much longer and more complicated history-one that speaks as much of musical and racial integration as it does of separation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226701980
• ISBN13: 9780226701981
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 417 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.2"