Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (941 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823084043 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Currently, heis cohost of KGSRFM’smorning drive-time program, Kevin & Kevin. . Kevin Phinney, anentertainmentjournalist based inAustin, has writtenfor the Austin American-Statesman,Premiere magazine,and the HollywoodReporter
Unique, intriguing,Souled American should be required reading for everyAmerican interested in music, in history,or in healing our country’s troubledrace relations.• Combines social history and pop cultureto reveal how jazz, blues, soul, country,and hip-hop have developed• Includes interviews with Ray Charles,Willie Nelson, B. From Jim Crow to Eminem, white culture has been transformedby black music. To be so influenced by the boundlessimagination of a race brought to America in chains setsup a fascinating irony, and Souled American, an ambitiousand comprehensive look at race relations as seen throughthe prism of music, examines that irony fearlessly—withilluminating results. B. King, David Byrne,Sly Stone, Donna Summer, Bonnie Raitt,and dozens more• Confronts questions of race and findsmeaningful answers• Ideal for Black History Month. Tracing a direct line from plantation fieldhollers to gangsta rap, author Kevin Phinney explains howblacks and whites exist in a constant tug-of-war as theycreate, re-create, and claim each phase of popular music.Meticulously researched, the book includes dozens of exclusivecelebrity interviews that reveal the day-to-day strugglesand triumphs of sharing the limelight
All rights reserved. Analyzing Nat King Cole's singing style and how it made him "one of the first modern artists to 'cross over' from black to white popularity," Phinney recounts how Cole, only months before the premiere of his 1956–1957 NBC television show, was assaulted onstage in Birmingham, Ala., by five white men. 45 b&w photos. This comprehensive coverage spans all genres, including blues, country, gospel, jazz, R&B, ragtime, rock and rap. . With blackface minstrelsy, "whites opened a portal to their own hidden creative impulses," and Phinney explores this theme as he covers "white men in transparent blackface" (Eminem), "multi-culti chanteuses" (Mariah Carey) and "sepia Sinatras" (Johnny Mathis). Anecdotes ab
"Highly informative and entertaining" according to Robley King. After a passing acquaintance with the author Kevin Phinney, I picked up his book, "Souled American". I thought the subject of how black music transformed white culture was intriguing, and was curious to see how Phinney made his argument.While I began as a casual r. Five Stars Great!. Wow and we have Kevin in Austin I have been listening to Kevin for years. Was sad when he went off to write this book. He was gone way too long but the book was worth the wait. Not only have I learned so much from listening to Kevin and Kevin every morning but now to read the book and all the wo