A change is gonna come : music, race & the soul of America / Craig Werner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Werner, Craig Hansen, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

African Americans--Race identity.

History.

United States.

African Americans--Race identity--History--20th century.

Music and race.

Physical Description:

xx, 468 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised & updated.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006.

Summary:

A Change Is Gonna Come is the story of more than four decades of enormously influential black music, from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from the disco inferno to the Million Man March; from Woodstock's "Summer of Love" to the war in Vietnam and the race riots that inspired Marvin Gaye to write "What's Going On."

Originally published in 1998, A Change Is Gonna Come drew the attention of scholars and general readers alike. This new edition, featuring four new and updated chapters, will reintroduce Werner's seminal study of black music to a new generation of readers.

Contents:

Introduction: "What's Going On" xiii

Section 1 "A Change Is Gonna Come": Mahalia Jackson, Motown, and the Movement

1 The Dream 3

2 Mahalia and the Movement 4

3 "The Soul of the Movement": Calls and Responses 11

4 Motown: Money, Magic, and the Mask 15

5 The Big Chill vs. Cooley High: Two out of Three Falls for the Soul of Motown 22

The Gospel Impulse 28

6 Sam Cooke and the Voice of Change 31

7 Solid Gold Coffins: Phil Spector and the Girl Group Blues 37

8 SAR and the Ambiguity of Integration 40

9 "The Times They Are A-Changin'": Port Huron and the Folk Revival 44

10 Woody and Race 49

11 "Blowin' in the Wind": Politics and Authenticity 53

12 Music and the Truth: The Birth of Southern Soul 56

13 Down at the Crossroads 65

The Blues Impulse 68

14 Soul Food: The Mid-South Mix 72

15 Dylan, the Brits, and Blue-Eyed Soul 79

16 The Minstrel Blues 85

17 Otis, Jimi, and the Summer of Love: From Monterey to Woodstock 89

18 Last Thoughts on the Dream: Dot and Diana 94

Section 2 "Love or Confusion?": Black Power, Vietnam, and the Death of the Dream

19 Sly in the Smoke 103

20 Death Warrants: LBJ, Martin, and the Liberal Collapse 106

21 "All Along the Watchtower": Jimi Hendrix and the Sound of Vietnam 109

22 'Retha, Rap, and Revolt 116

23 "Spirit in the Dark": Aretha's Gospel Politics 121

24 Jazz Warriors: Malcolm and Coltrane 125

The Jazz Impulse 132

25 "Black Is an' Black Ain't": JB, Miles, and Jimi 137

26 Curtis Mayfield's Gospel Soul 144

27 John Fogerty and the Mythic South 151

28 "Trouble Comin' Every Day": Southern Strategies and the Revolution on TV 158

29 Troubled Souls: Wattstax and Motown (West) 165

30 "Where Is the Love?": Donny Hathaway and the End of the Dream 172

Section 3 "I Will Survive": Disco, Irony, and the Sound of Resistance

31 Reflections in a Mirror Ball 177

32 Reverend Green and the Return of Jim Crow 179

33 Demographics 101: Hard Times in Chocolate City 183

34 Black Love in the Key of Life 187

35 Jimmy Carter and the Great Quota Disaster of 1978 191

36 Roots: The Messages in the Music 197

37 God Love Sex: Disco and the Gospel Impulse 203

38 Disco Sucks 209

39 Punks and Pretenders 212

40 Rebellion or Revolution: Bruce Springsteen and the Clash 218

41 P-Funkentelechy 226

42 Redemption Songs: Bob Marley in Babylon 230

43 The Message: Hip-hop and the South Bronx 236

Section 4 "And That's the Way That It Is": The Reagan Rules, Hip-hop, and the Megastars

44 Welcome to the Terrordome 245

45 Springsteen and the Reagan Rules 246

46 The Problem of Healing in the Hall of Mirrors 251

47 The View from Black America 253

48 The Way It Was and the Way It Is 257

49 Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby 260

50 Run-D.M.C. Negotiates the Mainstream 262

51 "A Hero to Most": Elvis in the Eighties 263

52 Megastardom and Its Discontents: Michael and Madonna 271

53 Duke Ellington for Our Time: The Symbol Formerly Known as Prince 277

54 West Africa Is in the House 281

55 "Bring the Noise": The New School Rap Game 284

56 "Know the Ledge": KRS-One, Rakim, and the Gangstas 290

57 "Born in the U.S.A.": Springsteen and Race 297

Section 5 "Holler If Ya Hear Me": In the Nineties Mix

58 Wasteland of the Free 307

59 American Dreaming 309

60 C.R.E.A.M., or, Tupac on Death Row 314

61 No More Drama: Mary J. Blige and the Hip Hop Generation 319

62 The Gospel Impulse Gets Crunk: OutKast and the Dirty South 330

63 Ozomatli and the Myth of Purity: Notes on the Browning of America 338

64 The Gospel Impulse (Remixed): Bruce Springsteen, Kirk Franklin, and Lauryn Hill 348.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-397) and index.

ISBN:

0472031473

OCLC:

62290627

Publisher Number:

9780472031474