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Title: Boogaloo by Arthur Kempton, Erroll McDonald, Randall Kennedy ISBN: 0375406123 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Hip, stylish and deeply insightful
Comment: Boogaloo is very cool - and in many ways stunning. Arthur Kempton has written a book that is simultaneously a treatise on black music, black culture, and american capitalism over the last century. And he has done it with great style - he is an amazing writer. On nearly every page there is at least one line (often many) that is totally quotable. I often would find myself re-reading a line over and over as I admired the combination of totally hip insight and wordsmithing. And it is that combination that largely makes this book so worthwhile. His handling of this vast subject is in fact deeply idiosyncratic - but it is through his own individual prism that the subject comes all the more alive. The selection of the photos parallel the writing, portraying the same eye for the ironic and revelatory. It would indeed have been totally cool to have an accompanying cd as the soundtrack of the book.
Boogaloo outlines the consistent threads that run through black music from the early 20th century onwards, from its early roots in blues and the church, to the soul and funk years, up to the hip hop of today. Kempton uses the lives and music of Thomas Dorsey, Sam Cooke, Barry Gordy, George Clinton, Tupac Shakur and other hip hop artists as the examples of the evolution of these threads. But this work is far more that a stylish review of different styles of black music.There are a number of broader themes at work here. One constant is a demonstration of the evolution of how black music has been marketed to young whites. Perhaps most importantly, Kempton sees popular culture as one of america's greatest exports, and black culture (in particular its music) at the heart of this, and his book is in part a demonstration of how this came to be.
One of the beauties of Kempton's accomplishment is that he doesn't always make explicit the connections in order to outline these themes, he allows the reader to do this for himself. With his particular selection of players and incidents from such a vast subject matter, combined with his own obvious love of the subject, and his wry humor and insights, Arthur Kempton has supplied us with both a revelatory and stylish treatise on black music, that in the process reveals much about american culture. He makes it clear in his short preface that this has been a life long study - and there is no doubt that anyone seriously interested in these subjects should take advantage of that study by reading this book. Besides that, it is totally cool and fun.
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Title: Stagolee Shot Billy : by Cecil Brown ISBN: 0674010566 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson ISBN: 0375404619 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence by Connie Bruck ISBN: 0375501681 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title:Footsteps of Our Fathers ASIN: B00006BHAN Publisher: Rounder / Pgd Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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Title: Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop by Guthrie P., Jr. Ramsey ISBN: 0520210484 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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