Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780674416598)

When Jimi Hendrix died, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier, Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution.

Author: Jack Hamilton
ISBN-10: 0674416597
ISBN-13: 9780674416598
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2016
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2017