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

Name: Hey America!
Brand: Birlinn General
SKU: 9781846975844
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9781846975844

by Stuart Cosgrove

Book Details

Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1846975840

ISBN-13 9781846975844

Publisher Birlinn General

Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 4th, 2022

Print length 368 Pages

Weight 678 grams

Dimensions 16.20 x 24.40 x 3.50 cms

Product Classification: North America (USA and Canada)United States of America, USA Soul & R 'n' B Popular music Social & cultural history Political leaders & leadership Political leaders and leadership Social and cultural history

KSh 4,500.00

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Hey America! unearths the untold story of how successive presidents and their most senior aides recruited pop, rock and soul musicians to campaign for their election and help shape and represent public policy (often with disastrous consequences). It reveals a remarkable roller-coaster of social change.

This is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised 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 and wide-ranging, Hey America! charts the evolution of sixties soul from the margins of American society to the mainstream, culminating in the rise of urban hip-hop and the dramatic stand-off between Donald Trump and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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