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Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song's significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and identity. Whether he is exploring how Black identity reshaped...
Author
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The author examines the years after World War II and before the Beatles, when Italian American singers rose to prominence. Follows the music from opera houses and piazzas of southern Italy, to the barrooms of the Bronx and Hoboken, to the Copacabana, Brooklyn's Paramount Theatre, and the Vegas Strip.
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