Rip it up : the Black experience in rock'n'roll / edited by Kandia Crazy Horse.

Other author Crazy Horse, Kandia, editor.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Descriptionxviii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subjects

Contents Foreword / Greg S. Tate -- "Live at the Philmore": introduction / Kandia Crazy Horse -- Ten questions for Little Richard / Andy Gill -- The Ike and Tina Turner revue: Streatham Locarno, London / Bill Millar -- Paint me white: bad days, black rock, and Arthur Lee's love story / Barney Hoskyns -- Bold as love? Jimi's afrocyberdelia and the challenge of the not-yet / Paul Gilroy -- A.K.A. Sly Stone: the rise and fall of Sylvester Stewart / Dalton Anthony -- Blues for Betty Davis's smile: the Betty Davis lacuna / Vivien Goldman -- Interview with Venetta Fields / Kandia Crazy Horse -- Hardcore jollies in the Himalayas: staring at the cosmic slop: the mothership connection between triple and quadruple consciousness / Michael C. Ladd -- Lorraine O'Grady Q & A / Jennifer Rice -- Play like a white boy: hard dancing in the city of chocolate / Darryl A. Jenifer -- How the Bad Brains inspired two garden-variety black dots from Queens to be as rock 'n' roll as they wanna be (and probably you too) / Sacha Jenkins -- The white noise supremacists / Lester Bangs -- Prince leads black pop through the back door / Barry Walter -- The birth of new blackness: the Family Stand's Moon in scorpio / Mark Anthony Neal -- Interview with Vernon Reid / Harry Allen -- Rock, racism, and retailing 101: a blueprint for cultural theft / Darrell M. McNeill -- Interview with Lenny Kravitz / Knox Robinson -- "Ain't nothin' like real ghetto music": Pharrell Williams, Mos Def, and Andre 3000 form a rap-rock poetics / Jon Caramanica -- The last Maverick: Me'Shell NdegeOcello and the burden of vision / Amy Linden -- If I can't get into it, it's commercial enough for me / Knox Robinson -- Interview with Slash (Saul Hudson) / Jessica Willis -- Black rock glossary.
Abstract A history of black rock analyzes the complex racial dynamics underlying rock and roll music as it assesses the contributions and experiences of African Americans to American popular music.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003055377
ISBN140396243X (alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML3534 .R54 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold