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Right to Rock – The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race de Maureen Mahon

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

Autor Maureen Mahon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iun 2004
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 cultivate 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 in late-twentieth-century America.Maureen Mahon observed and participated in BRC activities in clubs, studios, bars, and cafes in New York and Los Angeles. She conducted interviews with more than two dozen BRC members and followed the careers of the BRC artists and bands Me’Shell NdegéOcello, Living Colour, Faith, and Screaming Headless Torsos. Mahon chronicles the founding of the BRC by Vernon Reid (the band Living Colour’s guitarist), writer Greg Tate, and artists’ representative Konda Mason. In describing the cultural activism of the BRC, she delves into the political economy of the recording industry, the role of gender and sexuality in rock music, the musical and ideological definition of “black rock,” and the unique inspiration the musicians took from the career of Jimi Hendrix. Throughout, the voices of the BRC members come through loud and clear. Right to Rock is 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822333173
ISBN-10: 0822333171
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 39 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
1. Reclaiming the Right to Rock 1
2. The “Postliberated Generation” 33
3. Saturday Go to Meeting 59
4. Black Rock Manifesting 86
5. Black Rock Aesthetics 113
6. Living Colored in the Music Industry 142
7. Media Interventions 176
8. Playing Rock, Playing Roles 204
9. Jimi Hendrix Experiences 231
10. Until the Levee Breaks 257
Discography 267
Notes 273
Bibliography 285
Index 299

Recenzii

“In clear, concise, and immensely readable prose, Right to Rock asks important—often uncomfortable but always necessary—questions about the power and limits of racially identified aesthetics in social, artistic, political, and economic contexts. In looking at the triumphs and struggles of rock ’n’ roll bands such as Screaming Headless Torsos, Bad Brains, Living Colour, and Fishbone, Maureen Mahon opens a window on to an American music and culture that has historically sought to disenfranchise, marginalize, and even deny the existence of the vital contributions of African American musical artists from Blind Tom to Me’Shell NdegéOcello. Anyone seeking to understand the ideas behind ‘Black Rock’—whether one hears that phrase as ‘divisive' or 'inclusive'—would do well to pick up a copy of Right to Rock and read it.”—Vernon Reid, guitarist, founder of the band Living Colour, and cofounder of the Black Rock Coalition“Maureen Mahon’s Right to Rock presents a fascinating description of the meaning of rock music for black artists and audiences. Devoted to a form of commercialized leisure for which they are not the target demographic, these committed musicians and listeners write themselves into a story from which they have largely been excluded. Important as a study of a fascinating cultural practice, Right to Rock also makes indispensable contributions to our understanding of larger issues about both the fixity and the fluidity of market categories and social identities.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger

Notă biografică

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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"Maureen Mahon's "Right to Rock" presents a fascinating description of the meaning of rock music for black artists and audiences. Devoted to a form of commercialized leisure for which they are not the target demographic, these committed musicians and listeners write themselves into a story from which they have largely been excluded. Important as a study of a fascinating cultural practice, "Right to Rock" also makes indispensable contributions to our understanding of larger issues about both the fixity and the fluidity of market categories and social identities."--George Lipsitz, author of "American Studies in a Moment of Danger"

Descriere

The original architects of rock 'n roll were black musicians, but by the 1980s, rock music produced by African Americans was no longer "authentically black." Mahon offers an in-depth account of how, since 1985, members of the Black Rock Coalition have broadened understandings of black identity and culture through rock music.