Anyone read this book?

http://www.amazon.com/Rig...019&sr=8-1

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.

Don't move this to p&r!

lilgish said:

No I haven't but i've just ordered it.
I've got some opinions about the organization but i'm gonna read the book first.


Good to see you back in the place.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

I'll check it out!
Right now I'm reading "Rip it Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'N' Roll" edited by Kandia Crazy Horse. It's a collection of interviews, articles and reviews covering different artists.

chocolate1 said:

I just picked this up for $0.32 on Amazon!
As long as the covers are still on and the spine's in tact i'm good.

Decided to check into the author (Kandia Crazy Horse) and found an audio interview.
While describing her background, she had started to sort of ramble/drone on (in my mind at the time anyway) and her voice had begun to annoy me to the point that I started doing some other work while listening. Suddenly she made a very perceptive comment involving Lewis Taylor. "...my favorite Black Rock musician of the past 10 years, Lewis Taylor. Black or not. A lot of the problems with his career is this old adage that he's too White for Black folk and too Black for White folk."

Interesting.


If you're interested, you can catch the full interview here:
http://www.boldaslove.us/...alist.html


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

Kool, I actually have her book! Thanks for the link!

BTW, definitely on point about Lewis Taylor!!!!



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theAudience said:

Thanks! I will check it out!

theAudience said:

I have this book and I would love to discuss this with anyone. The BRC?

Mama said if you ain't got nothing good to to say...