Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-Hop (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556528170)

The marriage of music and social change didn't originate with the movements for civil rights and Black Power in the 1950s and 1960s, but never before and never again was the relationship between the two so dynamic. In Keep On Pushing, author Denise Sullivan presents the voices of musician-activists from this pivotal era and the artists who followed in their footsteps to become the force behind contemporary liberation music. Joining authentic voices with a bittersweet narrative covering more than fifty years of fighting oppression through song, Keep On Pushing defines the soundtrack to revolution and the price the artists paid to create it. Exclusive interviews with Yoko Ono, Richie Havens, Len Chandler, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Michael Franti, Solomon Burke, Wayne Kramer, John Sinclair, Phranc, plus musician-activist Elaine Brown on the Black Panthers, Nina Simone collaborator Al Schackman, Penelope Houston and Debora Iyall on San Francisco punk rock, Ed Pearl on the L.A. folk scene and the Ash Grove, and other musical and political icons.

Author: Denise Sullivan
ISBN-10: 1556528175
ISBN-13: 9781556528170
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.09w x 0.54d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2011
Library Journal 07/01/2011 pg. 83
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 166