Boogaloo The Quintessence of American Popular Music

Name: Boogaloo The Quintessence of American Popular Music
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ISBN: 9780472030873

ISBN-10: 0472030876

ISBN-13: 9780472030873

Edition: 2005

Authors: Arthur Kempton

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The much-anticipated paperback edition of Arthur Kempton's story on the art, influence, and commerce of Black American popular music Praise for Boogaloo: "From Thomas A. Dorsey and gospel to Sam Cooke and the classic age of boogaloo ('soul') to George Clinton and hip hop, this comprehensive analysis of African-American popular music is a deep and gorgeous meditation on its aesthetics and business." ---Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard "Surpassingly sympathetic and probing. . . . a panoramic critical survey of black popular music over seventy-five years. . . .There is no book quite like it." ---New York Review of Books ". . . moving, dense, and…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 7/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Arthur Kempton was born in Princeton, New Jersey & received a B.A. from Harvard. A frequent contributor to "The New York Review of Books", he lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Sightseers in Beulah: Original Soul-Thomas A. Dorsey, Sam Cooke, and the Classic Age of Boogaloo



Rock in a Weary Land



Got to Know How to Work Your Show



A Handsome Negro Lad



Feet Strike Zion



Both Ends Against the Middle



Star Time at the Regal



B Movie: Souled Out



First I Look at the Purse: Motown and Memphis



Family Values



Tall Cotton



It's What's in the Grooves That Counts



Crackers and Flies



The Further You Look the Less You See



Negribusiness (Sharecropping in Wonderland): George Clinton and Hip-Hop



Urban Legends



Ready to Spread



Two Tears in a Bucket


Afterword


Notes


Selected Bibliography