Just Around Midnight: Rock And Roll And The Racial Imagination

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
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674416597
• | ISBN-13: 9780674416598