Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race by Mahon, Maureen
Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race by Mahon, Maureen

Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race

The original architects of rock 'n' roll were black musicians including Little Richard, Etta James, and Chuck...
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Author: Maureen Mahon
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Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race by Mahon, Maureen

Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race

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Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race by Mahon, Maureen

Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race

BD$43.46
Author: Maureen Mahon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The original architects of rock 'n' roll were black musicians including Little Richard, Etta James, and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix electrified rock with his explosive guitar in the late 1960s. Yet by the 1980s, rock music produced by African Americans no longer seemed to be "authentically black." Particularly within the music industry, the prevailing view was that no one--not black audiences, not white audiences, and not black musicians--had an interest in black rock. In 1985 New York-based black musicians and writers formed the Black Rock Coalition (brc) to challenge that notion and create outlets for black rock music. A second branch of the coalition started in Los Angeles in 1989. Under the auspices of the brc, musicians organized performances and produced recordings and radio and television shows featuring black rock. The first book to focus on the brc, Right to Rock is, like the coalition itself, about the connections between race and music, identity and authenticity, art and politics, and power and change. Maureen Mahon observed and participated in brc activities in New York and Los Angeles, and she conducted interviews with more than two dozen brc members. In Right to Rock she offers an in-depth account of how, for nearly twenty years, members of the brc have broadened understandings of black identity and black culture through rock music.

Author: Maureen Mahon
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 06/23/2004
Pages: 317
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.42w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780822333173


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1830
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2005 pg. 63 - Strongly Recommended
Black Issues Book Review 09/01/2004 pg. 27

About the Author

Maureen Mahon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the African American Studies Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.




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