Cold sweat : my father James Brown and me / Yamma Brown ; with Robin Gaby Fisher ; photo credits, all photos courtesy of Yamma Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Yamma, author, photographer.

Fisher, Robin Gaby, author.

Series:

An A Cappella Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brown, James, 1933-2006.

Brown, James.

Brown, Yamma.

Soul musicians--United States--Biography.

Soul musicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Being the child of a global superstar is never easy, but being the daughter of the "Hardest Working Man in Show Business"-that's a category unto itself. Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father's attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated women in James Brown's life set the stage for an uncommon childhood. She got caught in the same trap as her mother, doing things in her adult life and troubled marriage that, as a child, she'd promised herself she'd ne

Contents:

Front Cover; Front Flip; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1: Your Father's Dead; Chapter 2: Three Funerals and Michael Jackson; Chapter 3: Walton Way; Chapter 4: An Ordinary Life; Chapter 5: Dad's Beating Mom Again; Chapter 6: Leaving Dad; Chapter 7: A New Life; Chapter 8: Adrienne; Chapter 9: Crazy Love; Chapter 10: Home from Jail; Chapter 11: Denzel; Chapter 12: Adrienne's Dead; Chapter 13: A Doctor in the House; Chapter 14: Committing Dad; Chapter 15: Prince Charming; Chapter 16: Meet Tomi Rae; Chapter 17: A Baby and a Wedding; Chapter 18: Texas

Chapter 19: All in the FamilyChapter 20: Broke; Chapter 21: Trouble in Paradise; Chapter 22: Back to Atlanta; Chapter 23: A Family Divided; Chapter 24: Contesting the Will; Chapter 25: No Place for Dad; Chapter 26: The End of the Marriage; Chapter 27: Protecting Dad's Will; Chapter 28: A Shooting; Chapter 29: A Suspect; Chapter 30: Cold Case; Chapter 31: Blessed; Index; Back Flip; Back Cover

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781883052867

1883052866