Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Cohen, Aaron
Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Cohen, Aaron

Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

A Chicago Tribune Book of 2019, Notable Chicago Reads A Booklist Top 10 Arts Book of 2019...
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Author: Aaron Cohen
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Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Cohen, Aaron

Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

CHF 45.57
Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Cohen, Aaron

Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

CHF 45.57
Author: Aaron Cohen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Chicago Tribune Book of 2019, Notable Chicago Reads

A Booklist Top 10 Arts Book of 2019

A No Depression Top Music Book of 2019

Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment. In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America's future through their sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and many others. Curtis Mayfield boldly sang of uplift with unmistakable grooves like "We're a Winner" and "I Plan to Stay a Believer." Musicians like Phil Cohran and the Pharaohs used their music to voice Afrocentric philosophies that challenged racism and segregation, while Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Chaka Khan created music that inspired black consciousness. Soul music also accompanied the rise of African American advertisers and the campaign of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983. This empowerment was set in stark relief by the social unrest roiling in Chicago and across the nation: as Chicago's homegrown record labels produced rising stars singing songs of progress and freedom, Chicago's black middle class faced limited economic opportunities and deep-seated segregation, all against a backdrop of nationwide deindustrialization.

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and a music critic's passion for the unmistakable Chicago soul sound, Cohen shows us how soul music became the voice of inspiration and change for a city in turmoil.

Author: Aaron Cohen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/25/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780226653037


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 7
Library Journal 07/19/2019 pg. 1
Choice 04/01/2020

About the Author
Aaron Cohen covers the arts for numerous publications and teaches English, journalism, and humanities at the City Colleges of Chicago. He is the author of Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace".
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